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First book-length study of the relationship between contemporary teen screen media and the fairy tale
Redeploys Victor Turner’s work on liminality for a feminist agenda
Thorough explication of liminality in the teen girl rite-of-passage narrative will provide a new and very productive method for thinking about girlhood onscreen
Covers a range of teen media, including film, television, and online media
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- fairytale
- teen
- screen
- little red riding hood
- twilight
- film
- television
- online media
- Victor Turner
- teenagehood
- girlhood
Reviews
“The classic fairy tales of Cinderella, Red Riding Hood or Sleeping Beauty may seem to offer the most conventional, conservative monuments of patriarchal culture. But, as Athena Bellas demonstrates in her dazzlingly erudite analysis, the modern ‘teen screens’ of cinema (Twilight, Aquamarine) and TV (Pretty Little Liars, Gossip Girl) produce provocative, ambivalent, sometimes radical responses to and revisions of these myths. Playful and incisive, lucid and subtle, Fairy Tales on the Teen Screen: Rituals of Girlhood heralds a genuine breakthrough in the feminist analysis of popular culture.” (Adrian Martin, Monash University, author of Mise en Scène and Film Style)
“Athena Bellas expertly illustrates that when screen girls activate their voice and gaze in the context of liminality and community, a counterintuitive link between fairy tales and feminism forms. Addressing both broadly popular and niche cult texts, the book reminds us of the power of adaptation, revision, and trenchant feminist analysis. A delight to read!” (Sarah Projansky, University of Utah, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Athena Bellas
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fairy Tales on the Teen Screen
Book Subtitle: Rituals of Girlhood
Authors: Athena Bellas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64973-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64972-6Published: 23 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87915-4Published: 25 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64973-3Published: 10 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 250
Number of Illustrations: 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Genre Studies, Youth Culture, American Film and TV