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Screening Children in Post-apocalypse Film and Television

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This collection examines the child's role in contemporary post-apocalyptic films and television. In these narratives, children have occupied conflicting positions-as harbingers of disaster or as symbols of survival and hope. The child in many post-apocalyptic narratives occupies a unique space that oscillates between civilization and tribalism, human and animal, life and death, hope and despair, faith and nothingness. By exploring the ways the child character functions within a dystopian framework, the chapters in this book illustrate how traditional notions of childhood are tethered to sites of adult conflict and disaster, a connection that often works to reaffirm the "rightness" of past systems of social order.
Debbie Olson is associate professor at Missouri Valley College.
Introduction Debbie Olson Chapter 1. Post-Apocalyptic Mosaic: The Road and the Image of the Child as an Eschatological Symbol of Hope. Nick Petrov Chapter 2. Into the Woods: Mother Nature as Protector of Young Female Survivors in Post-Apocalyptic Film and Television Elaine Morton Chapter 3. Youth on its Own: Growing Up in a Lonely Post-Apocalyptic World Denis Newiak Chapter 4. Reanimating the past: Post-Apocalypse and the First Nation Child in Cargo (Howling & Ramke, 2017) Matthew Smith Chapter 5. The (Zombie) Child, the Animal, and 'the Human Part' in AMC's The Walking Dead Monica Sousa Chapter 6. (Re)storying Collective Ethics: Tracing Absences in Figurations of Childhood in Post-apocalyptic Film Cory Jobb Chapter 7. "Don't Stray Too Far:" [Robot] Parents and [Posthuman] Children Ingrid E. Castro and Joseph V. Giunta Chapter 8. "Being" and "Becoming" of the "Unbecoming" Child: Hybrid Children in the Post-Apocalyptic world of Sweet Tooth Suniti Madaan and Cijo Joy Chapter 9. "It's just not yours anymore": [Dis]Ability, Childhood, and the Death of Innocence in The Girl with All the Gifts (2016) Debbie Olson
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