Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Debbie Olson, Andrew Scahill -- I see dead people: ghost-seeing children as mediums and mediators of communication in contemporary horror cinema / Sage Leslie-McCarthy -- I Can't Go On, I Must Go On: How Jeliza Rose Meets Alice and the Dark Side of Childhood in Terry Gilliam's Tideland / Jayne Steel -- Wednesdays Child: Adolescent Outsiders in Contemporary British Cinema / Stella M. Hockenhull -- Wonka, Freud and the Child Within: (Re) Constructing Lost Childhood in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory / Adrian Schober -- Representations of Childhood and Conflict in African Fiction Film / Christine Singer and Lindiwe Dovey -- Pity the Child: Exploring Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Gummo (1997) / Sarah E. S. Sinwell -- The Ideal Immigrant is a Child: Michou d'Auber and the Politics of Immigration in France / Nicole Beth Wallenbrock -- It's all for you, Damien!: Oedipal Horror and Racial Privilege in The Omen series / Andrew Scahill -- Little Rebels in Mao's Era: Representing Children of the Past in Zhang Yuan's Little Red Flowers (Yuan Zhang, 2006) / Kiu-wai Chu -- Batteries Have Run Out: Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen / Gilles Chamerois -- A Krank's Dream: Conflicts Between Form and Narrative in City of Lost Children / Carolyn Salvi -- Childhood, Ghost Images, and the Heterotopian Spaces of Cinema: The Child as Medium in The Others / Christian Stewen -- The Hitchcock Imp: Children and the Hyperreal in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) / Debbie Olson -- Experiencing H�uz�un Through the Loss of Life, Limbs, and Love in Turtles Can Fly / Fran Hassencahl.

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