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âStick that knife in meâ: Shane Meadowsâ children
This article brings Shane Meadowsâ Dead Man's Shoes (2004) into dialogue with the history of the depiction of the child on film. Exploring Meadowsâ work for its complex investment in the figure of the child on screen, it traces the limits of the liberal ideology of the child in his cinema and the structures of feeling mobilised by its usesâââat once aesthetic and sociologicalâââof technologies of vision