Monstrous youth : transgressing the boundaries of childhood in the United States /

Uses a range of subjects and disciplines, including queer theory, popular culture, childhood studies, and comics studies to chart the relationship between monstrosity and child/adolescent bodies and identities. Connects monsters and their consumption to changing reflection, interpretation and shapin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Austin, Sara (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2022].
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Enfreakment in 1950s horror comics and teen horrorpics
  • Images of racial anxiety in 1960s and 1970s picture books
  • Middle-class innocence, monstrous material culture, and the moral panics of the 1980s
  • Monstrous families from 1990s series fiction to the Post-Twilight era
  • Conclusion: How to make a monster (story).