This collection seeks to broaden the discussion of the child image by close analysis of the child and childhood as depicted in non-Western cinemas. Each essay o

What is the child for Latin American cinema? This book aims to answer that question, tracing the common tendencies of the representation of the child in the cin

This book illustrates how global horror film images of children re-conceptualised childhood at the beginning of the twenty-first century, unravelling the child'

Vicky Lebeau investigates how films use children to probe such themes as sexuality, death, imagination, the terrors of childhood, and hope.

This book brings together a host of internationally recognised scholars to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on the representation of the child in cinema