YOUTH ON FILM
Teenage murderesses and monster babies
The portrayal of young people in recent central European film
Youthful innocence as a victim of social forces is often used in film to critique changes in society. Felicitas Becker looks at how the young are depicted in Cześć Tereska, Lovely Rita and other recent works.
YOUTH ON FILM
Child victims and
excessive signifiers
Lars von Trier's Forbrydelsens element (The Element of Crime, 1984)
Von Trier uses child murders as a means of showing a fundamental aspect of Scandinavian horror—the fear that paganism lurks beneath the surface of modern respectability, as Rebecca A and Samuel J Umland explain.