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[Commlist] New book: Children Beware! Childhood, Horror and the PG-13 Rating

Wed Feb 12 16:06:18 GMT 2020




I am pleased  to announce the publication of my monograph, /Children Beware! Childhood, Horror and the PG-13 Rating <https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/children-beware/>./ You can find a preview on Google Books <https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=49nKDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=children+beware&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjKso2F_cvnAhUKhlwKHaRlDq0Q6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q&f=false>.

The book explores the children's horror trend (1980-1995) -- which includes films like Disney's /The Watcher in the Woods/, /Gremlins/, and /The Nightmare before Christmas/, as well as television and book series like /Goosebumps /-- to argue that these texts and their conflicted reception circulate dramatic socio-cultural and industrial change. As the analysis develops, the development of pre-adolescence as a concept in American culture in the 1980s ruptured previous agreements over the limits of childhood and of children's engagement with popular culture, notably the horror genre. The cultural struggles which ensued prompted not only the creation of an industry-changing classification, the PG-13 rating, but also a full reconfiguration of the concepts of childhood and horror in western culture, with meaningful implications not just for the development of children's culture and horror film but also for the ways we read and understand the genre's history today.

Please share with other colleagues and students who might be interested in the topic.

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