1st Edition
The Undead Child in Popular Culture Representations of Childhoods Past, Present, and Preserved
Introduction
Craig Martin and Debbie Olson
1. Silk Is a Child’s Skin: Marx, Engels, and the Modern Moloch
Jayson Althofer
2. “That canal gees me the creeps”: Haunted Bodies of Water and Geographies of Dead Childhood in the Cinema of Lynne Ramsay
Jack Anderson
3. Beyond Zombies: Resurrected Young People and Incongruity in Les Revenants, The Returned (US), and Resurrection
Karin Beeler
4. White Futures Only: Racialized Undeadness in The Last of Us
Lucas Cober
5. Not Quite Dead: The Function of Ghost Children in William Mumler’s Spirit Photography
Marion Tempest Grant
6. Nightmares about Fossils: Spectral Children, Colonial Legacies, and Intergenerational Trauma in the Work of Hilary Mantel
Lucy Arnold
7. “Taken from Life”: Lewis Carroll’s Photographic Memory and the Cur(s)ing of Sleeping Beauties Sent to Wonderland
Maryna Matlock
8. Fraught and Fragile Domesticity: Visions of the Undead Child(hood) in Walter de la Mare’s Broomstick
Toni Thibodeaux
9. Written on the Body: Traumatic Encounters with the Dead Child in Sharp Objects (HBO, 2018)
Nonie May
10. “But You’re Just a Girl”: The Haunting Specter of Childhood in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Eloise Ross
11. Undead Child, Undead Parents: “Honor Crime” and Matricide in Yashar Kemal’s To Crush the Serpent
Hivren Demir-Atay
12. “They Never Come Back ... as Boys”: The Necropolitics of Hitler's Children in Disney's Pinocchio (1940) and Education for Death (1943)
Craig Martin
Biography
Craig Martin teaches screen studies in the Department of Film, Games and Animation at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.
Debbie Olson is an associate professor of English at Missouri Valley College, USA.
