Table of Contents
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
