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Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, Blue Ridge Summit
This collection uses the representation of children and childhood as a lens to examine both Stephen King's fictional oeuvre and several film adaptations of his works. Cover -- Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King -- Children and...
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This collection uses the representation of children and childhood as a lens to examine both Stephen King's fictional oeuvre and several film adaptations of his works. Cover -- Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King -- Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- American Childhood -- Small-Town Terrors -- The Volume -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I 1970s -- Chapter 1 -- Degeneration through Violence and Stephen King's Rage -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 -- "Such a Tragedy Might Have Been Averted" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 -- The Children as Nemesis -- Locating the Children of Gatlin Among Evil Children -- Literature Review and Research Gap -- The "Children of the Corn" as an Eco Horror -- The Ambivalent Treatment of the Subtext by Film Sequels -- Persistence of the Subtext and Its Significance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 -- Of "Pagan Devil-Children" and Monstrous Plants -- Monstrous Plants and Climate Change -- Nature's Fertility and Humanity's Sterility in "Children of the Corn" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 -- The Spectacle of Child-Suffering in Stephen King's The Long Walk -- Suffering, Crowd, and Spectacle in The Long Walk -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II 1980s -- Chapter 6 -- Monstrosity, Ethic of Care, and Moral Agency in Stephen King's Firestarter -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7 -- Boys in The Body -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 -- "Not if I See You First" -- "Did Your Mother Ever Have Any Kids that Lived?": The Playspace of Castle Rock -- "Kids Lose Everything Unless There's Someone Out There to Look Out for Them": The Aesthetics of Relation in Stand by Me -- Concluding Remarks: Music as a Bridge between the Viewing Adult and the Screen Child -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9 -- "Performing a Kind of Self-Pyschoanalysis" -- The Reading Method(ology)/ King and (Self-)psychoanalysis.
