Gender and female villains in 21st century fairy tale narratives : from evil queens to wicked witches /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Le Clue, Natalie (Editor ), Vermaak-Griessel, Janelle (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley : Emerald Publishing, 2022.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Emerald studies in popular culture and gender.
Temas:
Fairy tales > History and criticism.
Fairy tales in literature.
Women in literature.
Villains in literature.
Contes de fées > Histoire et critique.
Contes de fées dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Méchants dans la littérature.
Fairy tales
Fairy tales in literature
Villains in literature
Women in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Natalie Le Clue and Janelle Vermaak-Griessel
  • Gender
  • "'To destroy. To hate. To sow seeds of chaos. You know, just girly things"': Evil queens, femslash fandom and monstrous happiness / Alice M. Kelly
  • Scary good: Queering the villain-hero dichotomy in contemporary fairy tale retellings / Alba Morollón Díaz-Faes
  • A tale of two mothers: Recombining villainy and motherhood in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) / Rebecca Rowe
  • When the magic mirror lies: Gender, vanity, body dysmorphia, and the wicked queen / Sara Austin
  • Screen narratives
  • 'Pretty ballads hide bastard truths': patriarchal narratives and female power in Netflix's The Witcher / Kirsty Worrow
  • Positioning Mrs Coulter in BBC/HBO's His Dark Materials / Giulia Bigongiari
  • Female power and corruption: Snow White and the Evil Queen through the ages / Sarah Faber
  • The reimagined female villain in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire / Amit Kardosh
  • Character reformations
  • The stepmother problem: How an information deficit in film creates female villains / Rebecca Gadd
  • 'These violent delights': Remodeling the fembot archetype in Ex Machina and Westworld / Kirsty Worrow
  • The fairest evil looming over Earth: Representations of the Evil Queen in 21st Century 'Snow White' adaptations / Svea Hundertmark
  • 'Evil isn't born, it's made': Redefining the fairytale villain for contemporary television storytelling / Natalie Le Clue
  • Physicality
  • Maimed wings and broken hearts: Physical disability, social exclusion, and maternal love in Disney's Maleficent and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil / Hannah Helm
  • 'Poor, unfortunate souls': Fan perception of Ursula the sea witch from Disney's The Little Mermaid (1989) / Janelle Vermaak-Griesse
  • A rhetoric of evil: The clichéd motif of the Evil Queen / Natalie Le Clue and Janelle Vermaak-Griesse
  • Conclusion / Natalie Le Clue and Janelle Vermaak-Griessel.

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