9. ‘Round and round, the world keeps spinning . When it stops, it’s just beginning’

Abstract

The final chapter considers the impact of the shift from analogue to digital media upon the preoccupations and aesthetics of millennial uncanny child films. Via an analysis of The Ring (Gore Verbinski, 2002), Chapter Nine contends that this paradigmatic technological shift has deep intersections with the ideological tangling of beginnings and endings characterized by the millennial turn. These intersections are embodied by the uncanny child in The Ring who eerily conflates decay and growth.