By Amy Billone
This publication investigates the reappearance of the 19th-century dream-child from the Golden Age of kid's Literature, either within the Harry Potter sequence and in different works that experience reached unheard of degrees of well known good fortune this present day. Discussing Harry Potter as a reincarnation of Lewis Carroll's Alice and J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Billone is going directly to study the hot resurrection of Alice in Tim Burton's Alice, and of Peter Pan in Michael Jackson and in James Bond. vacationing traits that experience emerged because the Harry Potter sequence ended, the ebook reviews revisions of the dream-child in texts and flicks that experience encouraged mass fandom within the twenty-first century: Stephenie Meyer's Twilight, E.L. James's 50 colours of Grey and Suzanne Collins's The starvation Games. the quantity argues that the 21st-century wish to in attaining dream-states in dating to everlasting adolescence effects from the way in which that goals offer a way of understanding the glorious but alarming probability of escaping from time. This present id with the dream-child stems from the specter of political unrest and monetary and environmental cave in in addition to from the simultaneous technophilia and technophobia of a tradition immersed within the breathless revolution of the electronic age. This publication not just explores how the dream-child from the previous has lower back to mirror misgivings approximately imagined dystopian futures but additionally unearths how the rebirth of the dream-child opens up chances for brand spanking new narratives the place satisfied endings stay workable opposed to all odds. it is going to attract students in a wide selection of fields together with youth reports, Children's/YA Literature, Cinema experiences, Cultural experiences, Cyberculture, Gender reports, Queer reviews, Gothic stories, New Media, and renowned Culture.
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