Misfit Sisters: Screen Horror as Female Rites of Passage

Misfit Sisters: Screen Horror as Female Rites of Passage

by S. Short
ISBN-10:
0230000207
ISBN-13:
9780230000209
Pub. Date:
10/31/2006
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN-10:
0230000207
ISBN-13:
9780230000209
Pub. Date:
10/31/2006
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Misfit Sisters: Screen Horror as Female Rites of Passage

Misfit Sisters: Screen Horror as Female Rites of Passage

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Overview

This timely study breaks new ground in exploring how recent film and television horror texts articulate a female rite of passage, updating the cautionary concerns found in fairy tales of the past, particularly in warning against predatory men, treacherous females and unhappy family situations.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780230000209
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 10/31/2006
Edition description: 2007
Pages: 196
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Sue Short lectures in film and media at Birkbeck College, University of London and the University of Hertfordshire, UK. She has written on a variety of science fiction and horror-related themes. She is the author of Cyborg Cinema and Contemporary Subjectivity.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Telling Tales: Fairy Tales and Female Rites of Passage Narratives Sex and the Final Girl: Surviving the Slasher Maternal Monsters and Motherly Mentors: Failed Initiations in Carrie and Carrie II Misfit Sisters: Female Kinship and Rivalry in The Craft and Ginger Snaps Fighting Demons: Buffy, Faith, Willow and the Forces of Good and Evil Demeter's Daughters: Wronged Girls and the Mother Avenger Conclusion Bibliography Filmography Index
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