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This book explores teen screen texts in which girls challenge limiting and prescriptive rituals of feminine adolescence. There is a marked contemporary trend in retelling and revising the fairy tale on the teen screen, and this book explores how this trend is reflected in texts such as Red Riding Hood (Hardwicke 2011), Twilight (Hardwicke 2008), Pretty Little Liars (ABC Family 2010–), Gossip Girl (The CW 2007–2012) and Aquamarine (Allen 2006). These texts are notable for the shifts they enact in the representation of gender in the fairy tale, unsettling the sexist narrative economy upon which many of the tales by Charles Perrault (1697), the Brothers Grimm (1857) and Hans Christian Andersen (1837) relied. I explore liminal moments in these teen screen rites of passage when feminine adolescent resistance occurs, because these moments represent a rupture in dominant narratives of girlhood and are therefore central to a feminist reading of the teen screen.
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Filmography
Aquamarine. Dir. Elizabeth Allen. 2006.
Beastly. Dir. Daniel Barnz. 2011.
Beauty and the Beast. The CW. 2012–2016.
Beauty and the Beast. Dir. Bill Condon. 2017.
Brave. Dirs. Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, Steve Purcell. 2012.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The WB. 1997–2003.
Cinderella. Dir. Kenneth Branagh. 2015.
A Cinderella Story. Dir. Mark Rosman. 2004.
The Company of Wolves. Dir. Neil Jordan. 1984.
Edward Scissorhands. Dir. Tim Burton. 1990.
Ella Enchanted. Dir. Tommy O’Haver. 2004.
Enchanted. Dir. Kevin Lima. 2007.
Ever After: A Cinderella Story. Dir. Andy Tennant. 1998.
Freeway. Dir. Matthew Bright. 1996.
Frozen. Dirs. Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee. 2013.
Ginger Snaps. Dir. John Fawcett. 2000.
Gossip Girl. The CW. 2007–2012.
Into the Woods. Dir. Rob Marshall. 2014.
Maleficent. Dir. Robert Stromberg. 2014.
Penelope. Dir. Mark Palansky 2006.
Pretty Little Liars. ABC Family. 2010–.
Pretty in Pink. Dir. Howard Deutch. 1986.
Red Riding Hood. Dir. Catherine Hardwicke. 2011.
Sabrina the Teenage Witch. ABC. 1996–2003.
The Secret Circle. The CW. 2011–2012.
Snow White and the Huntsman. Dir. Rupert Sanders. 2012.
Sydney White. Dir. Joe Nussbaum. 2007.
Tangled. Dirs. Nathan Greno and Byron Howard. 2010.
Teen Wolf. MTV. 2011–.
Twilight. Dir. Catherine Hardwicke. 2008.
The Vampire Diaries. The CW. 2010–2017.
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Bellas, A. (2017). Introduction: Fairy Tales on the Contemporary Teen Screen. In: Fairy Tales on the Teen Screen. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64973-3_1
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