Valerie Estelle Frankel

From Girl to Goddess

The Heroine's Journey through Myth and Legend

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Produktbeschreibung

Many are familiar with Joseph Campbell's theory of the hero's journey, the idea that every man from Moses to Hercules grows to adulthood while battling his alter-ego. This book explores the universal heroine's journey as she quests through world myth. Numerous stories from cultures as varied as Chile and Vietnam reveal heroines who battle for safety and identity, thereby upsetting popular notions of the passive, gentle heroine. Only after she has defeated her dark side and reintegrated can the heroine become the bestower of wisdom, the protecting queen and arch-crone. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 613g
• ISBN-13: 9780786448319
• ISBN-10: 0786448318
• Artikelnr.: 29352990

Autorenporträt

Valerie Estelle Frankel teaches English at Mission College and San Jose City College. The author of 75 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 Day (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