Peggy Hogan Knihy

In Milo's Burden, a wooden carving is brought to life by the ancient and forgotten Lifefire. But the new-born woman, Malissa, has a terrible her only emotion is rage. It feeds the power that surges through her and will not let her rest until she holds the entire world in a vicious death grip. The crew of the Pride and the inhabitants of mythical Uamh struggle to thwart her plans. In a bloody battle, Captain Oprum is taken prisoner and all else is put aside to rescue him.Milo, the young boy who animated Malissa, has inadvertently upset the forces of Lifefire and sundered its delicate balance. With his sister and her friend, and an old man and his mangy dog, he must travel deep within the mountains to discover the secrets of Lifefire before rage rules the world.

Flotsy is cursed. Dark, violent visions assault her dreams, visions that foresee the future. For a young girl in a small fishing village this is taboo. At seventeen, she boards a bus to somewhere no one knows of her and her curse. The city is at once alarming and exciting, and her visions are quiescent for a time. All too soon, they erupt again, and she is driven from place to place craving that short respite when she first arrives. At last she finds a modicum of peace in the Arizona desert, but her fragile tranquility is shattered by the sudden appearance of Joe, also cursed: he must do whatever the voice in his head demands, and it now demands that he join forces with Flotsy. They must thwart a powerful, psychotic man from stealing the water of a vital aquifer. Abruptly, Flotsy is shattered by a vision. An entity immobilizes her with its intensity and extreme need to make itself understood. Worse, its plea is intertwined with Joe's absurd demand. Flotsy sees things she can't control; Joe does things he can't control. What could they possibly do together?

Blat (an unfortunate name for a singer) is a young farmer boy recruited by a member of the Minstrels' Guild. Fourteen years later, he has completed his studies and been a Touring Minstrel ever since. While looking for material to inspire a new song, Blat stumbles upon a heretofore unknown society of people living in the rocky labyrinth beneath Whitecap Island's central glacier. They can no longer fulfill the task for which they were born and are in danger of becoming extinct. Worse, they are being drained of their lifeforce by the illusive and sinister Brothers of the Watch. He recruits Crag Bithoone, a brilliant but unstable scientist, and two children whose parents have been captured by the Brothers. Fueled by a need he barely acknowledges - to prove himself to the woman he loves - Blat must overcome mind-torture, bodiless travelling, a stronghold of Brothers, and their leader who has become truly unhinged. It seems a lot to take on... for a song.

This is the first genre study of child-starred cinemas from Spain. It illuminates continuities in the political use of the child protagonist in over fifty years of Spanish cinema and how the child-starred genres deploy the concept of childhood to retrospectively define the nation and its future. From Francoist popular to oppositional auteur films, and including Spanish and Latin American cinema, this monograph examines commonalities in aesthetics, narratives and genre functions. It demonstrates the impact of these narratives within Spanish film history and Francoist biopolitics, as well as providing a broader transatlantic perspective on the genre in select productions from Chile and Argentina.

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