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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Amanda Howell , Lucy BakerPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2022 Weight: 0.283kg ISBN: 9783031128462ISBN 10: 303112846 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 06 November 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: The Monstrous-Feminine Protagonist in Twenty-First-Century Screen Cultures.- Part I: Othered Mothers.- Chapter 2: Her Monster, Her Self: Amelia Sorts a Few Things Out in The Babadook.- Chapter 3: Hungry, Unruly and Bold: A Sitcom Mom’s Zombie Makeover in Santa Clarita Diet.- Part II: Reimagining the Girl.- Chapter 4: ‘I am That Very Witch’: Claiming Monstrosity, Claiming Desire in The Witch.- Chapter 5: ‘Not Yours Any More’: The Monstrous-Feminine Bildungsroman of The Girl with All the Gifts.- Chapter 6: Resistant Girl Monstrosity and Empowerment for Tweens: Monster High and Wolfblood.- Part III: From Fragments of the Old.- Chapter 7: A Badass in Bad City: The Interstitial Artist and Monstrous Self-fashioning in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.- Chapter 8: Rage Is a Monster: Lily Frankenstein Takes Back the Night in Penny Dreadful.- Part IV: Cult Fandoms and Fan Productions.- Chapter 9: ‘We are the Weirdos, Mister’: Monstrous Performativity, Resistant Femininity and Cult Fandoms of The Craft, Ginger Snaps and Jennifer’s Body.- Chapter 10: From Monstrous Girlhood to Empowered Adulthood: Melissa Hunter’s Adult Wednesday Addams Web Series.ReviewsAuthor InformationAmanda Howell is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University, Australia, where she teaches courses in screen history and aesthetics. Her research focuses on gender, genre, screen aesthetics and cultures in a sociohistorical frame, with a recurrent focus on horror as well as other ‘body genres’ such as action and the musical. Her publications on the Gothic and horror have appeared in journals such as Continuum, Gothic Studies and Genre and she is the author of A Different Tune: Popular Film Music and Masculinity in Action (2015). Lucy Baker teaches in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University, Australia, across fields of sociology, cultural and media studies. Her research focuses primarily on adaptations, gender and fans. Her work has been published in journals including Continuum, Journal of Girlhood Studies and The Journal of Fandom Studies. Her monograph Media and Gender Adaptation: Regendering, Critical Creation & the Fans (forthcoming, 2023) analyses adaptations and fanfic that change the gender of an original character and looks at how fans respond to those works. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |