Heroic Girls as Figures of Resistance and Futurity in Popular Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bacon, Simon

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Heroic Girls as Figures of Resistance and Futurity in Popular Culture looks at the recent proliferation of the 'final girl' young heroines who have entered popular consciousness as symbolising the potential and power as one that might change the future rather than repeat the mistakes of the past, thereby becoming the 'first girl'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040014318
• Artikelnr.: 70019236

Autorenporträt

Simon Bacon is a writer and film critic based in Poznä, Poland. He has written and edited 30+ books on various subjects including Gothic: A Reader (2018), Horror: A Companion (2019), Eco-Vampires (2020), Nosferatu in the 21st Century (2023), 1000 Vampires on Screen (2023), The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire (2024), and The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie (forthcoming). He is Kasi the editor of the book series 'Vampire Studies: New Perspectives on the Undead' at https://www.peterlang.com/series/vsu.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Theoretical Approaches; 1. The Narratives of Survival: Final Girls
in Videogames; 2. Fighting Fate: Representations of a 'New Order' in
Beautiful Creatures; 3. The Shadow Self and the New Girl: Breaking Down the
Old Worlds in Ursula Le Guin's The Tombs of Atuan and N.K. Jemisin's The
Stone Sky; 4. 'She would never fall, because her friend was flying with
her': Gothic Hybridity, Queer Girls and Exceptional States in Helen
Oyeyemi's The Icarus Girl (2005) and M. R. Carey's The Girl with all the
Gifts (2014); 5. Cheerleaders, Orphans, School Girls: The Persistent
Sounding Riot(Grrrl) in the (Televisual) Apocalypse; Part II:
Cross-Cultural Heroes; 6. Tranquilas: Monstrous Resistance and Feminist
Storytelling; 7. Sister-matic Cannibalism in the Dying Breed: Heterotopic
Representations of Australia's Lingering Colonial Connectivity; 8. Seeking
Resistance in Tropes: a Reading of the Final Girl Trope's Used in NH10 and
Stree and its Socio-Cultural Significance; 9. Gothic Agent of Revolt: The
Rebel Female Hero in Pan's Labyrinth; 10. From Vancouver Island to the City
of Troy: Prophecy, Heroism, and Indigenous Classical Reception in Catherine
Knutsson's Shadows Cast by Stars; Part III: Resistance, Revenge,
Reimagining; 11. Coralie Fargeat's Revenge (2017) and the Rape-Revenge
Action Hero; 12. 'What about you, Maxine? What's your American Dream?': X
and Pearl Radically Refit the Final Girl with an Axe and Hack Apart the
American Pastoral; 13. After The Credits Roll: Jade Daniels, Trauma and the
Postmodern Final Girl; 14. Killer Girls: Red Riding Hood, Girlhood and the
Final Girl; 15. The Witcher and Ciri of Cintra as the Heroic Final Girl;
Part IV: Into the Future; 16. Persephone Distorted: From Teen Witch to
Queen of Hell - The Evolution of Sabrina; 17. 'The Witch Forever Lives':
Redefining the Path for Empowered Final Girls in the Trilogy Fear Street;
18. First Girl, Last Jedi, Final Girl: Rey, Resistance, and the Future of
Star Wars; 19. The Environmental Context of Hope in Suzanne Collins's The
Hunger Games trilogy and M. R. Carey's The Girl with All the Gifts