4. The Child Seer and the Allegorical Moment in Millennial Spanish Horror Cinema

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Introduction 9
5. Section One: Secrets and Hieroglyphs: The Uncanny Child in American Horror Film
6. 1. The Child and Adult Trauma in American Horror of the 1980s 35
7. 2. The Uncanny Child of the Millennial Turn 67
8. Section Two: Insects Trapped in Amber: The Uncanny Child in Spanish Horror Film
9. 3. The Child and Spanish Historical Trauma 95
10. 4. The Child Seer and the Allegorical Moment in Millennial Spanish Horror Cinema 121
11. Section Three: Our Fear Has Taken on a Life of Its Own: The Uncanny Child in Japanese Horror Film
12. 5. The Child and Japanese National Trauma 155
13. 6. The Prosthetic Traumas of the Internal Alien in Millennial J-Horror 185
14. Section Four: Trauma’s Child: The Uncanny Child in Transnational Coproductions and Remakes
15. 7. The Transnational Uncanny Child 219
16. 8. Progress and Decay in the 21st Century 241
17. 9. ‘Round and round, the world keeps spinning . When it stops, it’s just beginning’ 265
18. Conclusion 283
19. Works Cited 289
20. Filmography 307
21. Artworks 313
22. Music 315
23. Film Index 317
24. Index 321