Uwaga, pułapki na dzieci! Topografia nawiedzonego domu w Duchu Stevena Spielberga i Tobe’a Hoopera

Karolina Kostyra

doi:10.32798/dlk.518

Published: 2020-07-31

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2020)

Beware the Traps for Children! The Topography of the Haunted House in Poltergeist by Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper

Karolina Kostyra

Dzieciństwo. Literatura i Kultura

Section: Studies

https://doi.org/10.32798/dlk.518

Abstract

The article offers an analysis of Poltergeist (1982) by Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper. The author retraces the topographic model of the film Freelings’ house. The building, its separate rooms, and domestic devices become the ‘open cuboids’ through which the demonic forces enter the family’s estate. The presence of human protagonists in the haunted house manifests itself in heterogenous ways, and is divided mostly according to generational and functional criteria. In the author’s reading of the film, the spaces of the living room and interiors of the children’s bedroom function as a senseful representation of parental frustrations and children’s fascinations and anxieties. The analysis is accompanied by contextual references to the horror cinema of the 1980s and to other cultural texts using similar motifs and plots.

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Poltergeist, horror, American cinema of the 1980s, haunted house, children’s bedroom, space in cinema, Steven Spielberg, Tobe Hooper

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Kostyra, K. (2020). Beware the Traps for Children! The Topography of the Haunted House in Poltergeist by Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper. Dzieciństwo. Literatura I Kultura, 2(1), 35–60. https://doi.org/10.32798/dlk.518

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Karolina Kostyra

gilbertalbertyna@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4983-9195

Affiliation:

University of Silesia in Katowice Poland

Bio Statement (e.g., department and rank)

Karolina Kostyra – MA, prepares a doctoral dissertation at the Institute of Culture Studies of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland) on the topography of children's bedrooms in fantastic cinema of the 1980s. Contact: gilbertalbertyna@gmail.com.