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

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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