![]() From the living room, to the dollhouse, and to the hospital bed, bad seeds liberally germinate. ![]() In particular, ‘Error Bred in the Bone’: The Bad Seed examines the appropriation of the monster-child by popular culture. Read The Bad Seed: A Vintage Movie Classic by March, William, lexile & reading level:, (ISBN: 9781101872666). This article also suggests LeRoy’s film adaptation is more appropriately viewed as a re-interpretation of Maxwell Anderson’s popular stage horror-melodrama, Bad Seed, produced in New York, 1954. The bad seed by March, William, 1893-1954 Publication date 1978 Publisher New York : Dell Collection inlibrary printdisabled internetarchivebooks americana Digitizing sponsor Internet Archive Contributor Internet Archive Language English Originally published 1954 Notes some content may be lost due to the binding of the book. These films should be read critically as products of the materialistdeterminist philosophy of Emile Zola’s modernist notion of natural, quasi-scientific causalities leading to criminality: genetic malfunctions in action. When read as a hypotextual narrative, March’s The Bad Seed has multiple, significant intertextual variations, such as Ruben’s film The Good Son (1993) and Collet-Serra’s film, Orphan (2009), which focus on the theme of the biological, non-supernatural child serial killer. This article examines William March’s The Bad Seed ( 1997), an American naturalist novel about a violent serial killer, 8-year-old Rhoda Penmark, and its film adaptation, Mervyn LeRoy’s The Bad Seed (1956). ![]()
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