Fairy Tales on the Teen Screen: Rituals of Girlhood

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This book examines how the fairy tale is currently being redeployed and revised on the contemporary teen screen. The author redeploys Victor Turner’s work on liminality for a feminist agenda, providing a new and productive method for thinking about girlhood onscreen. While many studies of teenagehood and teen film briefly invoke Turner’s concept, it remains an underdeveloped framework for thinking about youth onscreen. The book’s broad scope across teen media—including film, television, and online media—contributes to the need for contemporary analysis and theorisation of our multimedia cultural climate. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Introduction: Fairy Tales on the Contemporary Teen Screen (Athena Bellas)....Pages 1-36 An Escape to the Forest in Catherine Hardwicke’s Red Riding Hood (2011) (Athena Bellas)....Pages 37-68 When Sleeping Beauty Wakes: The Twilight Film Series, Liminal Time and Fantasy Images (Athena Bellas)....Pages 69-105 Liminal Communitas and Feminist Solidarity: Transforming ‘Bluebeard’ in Pretty Little Liars (ABC Family 2010–) (Athena Bellas)....Pages 107-146 Cinderella’s Transformation: Public Liminality and Style as Subversion in Gossip Girl (The CW 2007–2012) (Athena Bellas)....Pages 147-188 The Mermaid’s Tale: Ultraliminality and Feminist Futures in Aquamarine (Allen 2006) (Athena Bellas)....Pages 189-225 Conclusion: Rituals of Girlhood Transformed on the Teen Screen (Athena Bellas)....Pages 227-241 Back Matter ....Pages 243-250