The Undead Child in Popular Culture Representations of Childhoods Past, Present, and Preserved

Introduction

1. "Silk is a Child's Skin: Marx, Engels, and the Modern Moloch"

2. "'That canal gees me the creeps': Haunted Bodies of Water and Geographies of Dead Childhood in the Cinema of Lynne Ramsay"

3. "Beyond Zombies: Resurrected Young People and Incongruity in Les Revenants, The Returned (US) and Resurrection"

4. "White Futures Only: Racialized Undeadness in The Last of Us"

5. "Not Quite Dead: The Function of Ghost Children in William Mumler's Spirit Photography"

6. "Nightmares about Fossils: Spectral Children, Colonial Legacies and Intergenerational Trauma in the Work of Hilary Mantel"

7. "Taken from Life": Lewis Carroll's Photographic Memory and the Cur(s)ing of Sleeping Beauties Sent to Wonderland

8. Fraught and Fragile Domesticity: Visions of the Undead Child(hood) in Walter de la Mare's Broomstick

9. "Written on the Body: Traumatic Encounters with the Dead Child in Sharp Objects (HBO, 2018)"

10. "But You're Just a Girl": The Haunting Specter of Childhood in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

11. "Undead Child, Undead Parents: 'Honor Crime' and Matricide in Yashar Kemal's To Crush the Serpent"

12. "'They Never Come Back ... as Boys': The Necropolitics of Hitler's Children in Disney's Pinocchio (1940) and Education for Death (1943)"