Fourth Wave Feminism in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Volume 1. Essays on Film Representations, 2012-2019
Herausgeber: Frankel, Valerie Estelle

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Produktbeschreibung

¿ Fourth wave feminism has entered the national conversation and established a highly visible presence in popular media, especially in cutting-edge science fiction and fantasy films and television series. Wonder Woman, the Wasp, and Captain Marvel headline superhero films while Black Panther celebrates nonwestern power. Disney princesses value sisterhood over conventional marriage. This first of two companion volumes addresses cinema, exploring how, since 2012, such films as the Hunger Games trilogy, Mad Max: Fury Road, and recent Star Wars installments have showcased women of action. The true innovation is a product of the Internet age. Though the web has accelerated fan engagement to the point that progressivism and backlash happen simultaneously, new films increasingly emphasize diversity over toxic masculinity. They defy net trolls to provide stunning role models for viewers across the spectrum of age, gender, and nationality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 387g
• ISBN-13: 9781476677668
• ISBN-10: 1476677662
• Artikelnr.: 57092310

Autorenporträt

Valerie Estelle Frankel teaches English at Mission College and San Jose City College. The author of more than 90 popular culture books and more than 100 stories and essays, she lives in Sunnyvale, California.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction
Section I: New Rules
Passing the Mako Mori Test: Female Agency in Men's
Science Fiction and Fantasy Cinema (Tim Posada)
Blockbusters for a New Age: Sisterhood Defeats Angry Young
in Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Last Jedi and Ghostbusters (Valerie
Estelle Frankel)
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movies for Identity Politics in Fourth Wave
Feminism (Aamir Aziz and Farwa Javed)
Imperator Furiosa, Fury Broad: Gender in Mad Max:
Fury Road (Martin Ricksand)
Section II: Deconstruction
From Traditional Slasher to Fourth Wave: Fantastical
Reconversion in The Final Girls and Happy Death
(Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Canela Ailén Rodriguez Fontao
and Mariana S. Zárate)
Annihilation, HeLa and the New Weird: Destruction as Re-Creation
(Alexis Brooks de Vita)
"Hello, beasty": Uncompromising Motherhood in Disney's
Maleficent (Melissa Wehler)
Section III: Children's Stories
Katniss, the Naive Virgin: Fourth Wave Heroines Recentering
Neoconservative Values (Paula Talero Álvarez)
Contrivances of Female Empowerment and the Millennial Wave
in Disney Movies (Ananya Chatterjee and Nisarga Bhattacharjee)
Making Her Own Destiny: Disney's Diverse Females (Lisann Anders)
Jack Frost and the Heroine's Journey: Gender-Bending Back to the Goddess
in Rise of the Guardians (Patti McCarthy)
Section IV: Superheroes
Stings Like a Wasp: Janet van Dyne, Hope van Dyne and the Feminist
Superheroine in the Ant-Man Films (Don Tresca)
Riding the Waves of Feminism in Wonder Woman: A Shock Heard 'Round the
World (Carol Zitzer-Comfort and José I. Rodríguez)
Deconstructing the Wonder: Liberal Versus Conservative
Thought in Patty Jenkins's Wonder Woman (Christian Jimenez)
Black Panther and Wonder Woman: A Study in Feminist
Representation (Shoshana Kessock)
About the Contributors
Index