Monstrous Possibilities : The Female Monster in 21st Century Screen Horror /
This book focuses on how the abject spectacle of the 'monstrous feminine' has been reimagined by recent and contemporary screen horrors focused on the desires and subjectivities of female monsters who, as anti-heroic protagonists of revisionist and reflexive texts, exemplify gendered possi...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2022.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022. |
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Monstrous-Feminine Protagonist in Twenty-First-Century Screen Cultures
- Part I: Othered Mothers
- Chapter 2: Her Monster, Her Self: Amelia Sorts a Few Things Out in The Babadook
- Chapter 3: Hungry, Unruly and Bold: A Sitcom Mom's Zombie Makeover in Santa Clarita Diet
- Part II: Reimagining the Girl
- Chapter 4: 'I am That Very Witch': Claiming Monstrosity, Claiming Desire in The Witch
- Chapter 5: 'Not Yours Any More': The Monstrous-Feminine Bildungsroman of The Girl with All the Gifts
- Chapter 6: Resistant Girl Monstrosity and Empowerment for Tweens: Monster High and Wolfblood
- Part III: From Fragments of the Old
- Chapter 7: A Badass in Bad City: The Interstitial Artist and Monstrous Self-fashioning in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
- Chapter 8: Rage Is a Monster: Lily Frankenstein Takes Back the Night in Penny Dreadful
- Part IV: Cult Fandoms and Fan Productions
- Chapter 9: 'We are the Weirdos, Mister': Monstrous Performativity, Resistant Femininity and Cult Fandoms of The Craft, Ginger Snaps and Jennifer's Body
- Chapter 10: From Monstrous Girlhood to Empowered Adulthood: Melissa Hunter's Adult Wednesday Addams Web Series.