Description
Adrian Schober's Devil's Advocate entry covers the genesis, authorship, production history, marketing and reception of The Omen, before going on to examine the overarching theme of paranoia that drives the narrative: paranoia about the 'end times'; paranoia about government and conspiracy; paranoia about child rearing (especially, if one strips away the layer of Satanism); and paranoia about imagined threats to the right-wing Establishment from liberal and post-countercultural forces of the 1970s.
About the Author
Adrian Schober is a Melbourne-based film writer and scholar with a PhD in English from Monash University, Australia. He is the author of Possessed Child Narratives in Literature and Film: Contrary States (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), and co-editor (with Debbie Olson) of Children in the Films of Steven Spielberg (Lexington, 2016), Children, Youth, and American Television (Routledge, 2018) and Children, Youth, and International Television (Routledge, 2022). He is Senior Editor on the board of The Journal of Children in Popular Culture.
Book Information
ISBN 9781800857087
Author Adrian Schober
Format Paperback
Page Count 112
Imprint Liverpool University Press
Publisher Liverpool University Press