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The University of North Carolina Press Patrick Geddes Maker of the Future 2018 Edition by Philip Boardman
In Edinburgh during the eighties and nineties, Geddes was a truant professor of botany who spent more time cleaning up slums, building cooperative apartment houses, founding student hostels, running summer schools, criticizing universities, and encouraging the arts than he did in the classroom. He became an expert in botany, sociology, city-planning, reclamation, and economics.Originally published in 1944.A UNC Press Enduring Edition - UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value. Table of contents : - Introductionby Debbie Olson & Andrew ScahillChapter 1. "I See Dead People": Ghost-Seeing Children as Mediums and Mediators of Communication in Contemporary Horror Cinema.by Sage Leslie-McCarthyChapter 2. "I Can't Go On, I Must Go On": How Jeliza Rose Meets Alice and the Dark Side of Childhood in Terry Gilliam's Tidelandby Jayne SteelChapter 3. Wednesday's Child: Adolescent Outsiders in Contemporary British Cinemaby Stella M. HockenhullChapter 4. Wonka, Freud, and the Child Within: (Re)constructing lost childhood in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factoryby Adrian SchoberChapter 5. Representations of Childhood and Conflict in African Fiction Filmby Christine Singer & Lindiwe DoveyChapter 6. Pity the Child: Exploring Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Gummo (1997)by Sarah E. S. SinwellChapter 7. The Ideal Immigrant is a Child: Michou d'Auber and the Politics of Immigration in Franceby Nicole Beth WallenbrockChapter 8. "It's All For You, Damien!": Oedipal Horror and Racial Privilege in The Omen Seriesby Andrew ScahillChapter 9. Little Rebels in Mao's Era: Representing Children of the Past in Zhang Yuan's Little Red Flowers (Yuan Zhang, 2006)by Kiu-wai ChuChapter 10. "Batteries Have Run Out": Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteenby Gilles ChameroisChapter 11. A Krank's Dream: Conflicts Between Form and Narrative in City of Lost Childrenby Carolyn SalviChapter 12. Childhood, Ghost Images, and the Heterotopian Spaces of Cinema: The Child as Medium in The Othersby Christian StewenChapter 13. The Hitchcock Imp: Children and the Hyperreal in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963)by Debbie OlsonChapter 14. Experiencing Huzun Through the Loss of Life, Limbs, and Love in Turtles Can Flyby Fran Hassencahl