The Secret Life of Objects. The Topography of the Children's Room in 1980s Fantasy Cinema

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5 September 2025
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978-83-226-4498-0

The Secret Life of Objects. The Topography of the Children's Room in 1980s Fantasy Cinema

Authors

Karolina Kostyra
University of Silesia in Katowice
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4983-9195
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31261/PN.4255
Keywords:
1980s fantasy cinema, American cinema, children's bedroom, cinema space, topography

Synopsis

The aim of this book is to determine the topography of a children’s room – a space regularly depicted in the fantasy cinema of the 1980s. The bedrooms of protagonists of the American horror, fantasy and science fiction in the era of Reaganism serve as spheres of paranormal and miraculous phenomena. The author demonstrates that the interior spaces in which children confront otherness, experience transgression, dream nightmares and daydream exemplify the use of children’s gaze in the popular cinema.

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Author Biography

Karolina Kostyra, University of Silesia in Katowice

Cinephile, film studies scholar, assistant professor at the Institute of Culture Studies of the University of Silesia in Katowice. Author of publications on child films and coming-of-age narratives in cinema, for instance, the book Wiosenna bujność traw. Obrazy przyrody w filmach o dorastaniu [Splendor in the Grass. Nature Images in Coming-of-Age Films] (Katowice, 2019). Co-editor of “Final Girls – magazyn o kinie” – an internet portal devoted to genre cinema. [04.03.2025]

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