Misfit sisters: screen horror as female rites of passage

This timely study breaks new ground in exploring how recent film and television horror texts articulate a female rite of passage, updating the cautionary concerns found in fairy tales of the past, particularly in warning against predatory men, treacherous females and unhappy family situations

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1. Verfasser: Short, Sue 1968- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Palgrave Macmillan 2006
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Zusammenfassung:This timely study breaks new ground in exploring how recent film and television horror texts articulate a female rite of passage, updating the cautionary concerns found in fairy tales of the past, particularly in warning against predatory men, treacherous females and unhappy family situations
Beschreibung:Preface Introduction Telling Tales: Fairy Tales and Female Rites of Passage Narratives Sex and the Final Girl: Surviving the Slasher Maternal Monsters and Motherly Mentors: Failed Initiations in Carrie and Carrie II Misfit Sisters: Female Kinship and Rivalry in The Craft and Ginger Snaps Fighting Demons: Buffy, Faith, Willow and the Forces of Good and Evil Demeter's Daughters: Wronged Girls and the Mother Avenger Conclusion Bibliography Filmography Index
Beschreibung:xi, 196 Seiten 278 grams
ISBN:9781349279524

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