Gender and female villains in 21st century fairy tale narratives : from evil queens to wicked witches

For every hero, there is a villain, and for every villain there is a story. But how much do we really know about the villain? Filling a gap in the field of gender representation and character evolution, the chapters in this edited collection focus on female villains in the fairy tale narratives of 2...

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Other Authors Le Clue, Natalie (Editor), Vermaak-Griessel, Janelle (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022.
SeriesEmerald studies in popular culture and gender.
Subjects
Fairy tales > History and criticism.
Fairy tales in literature.
Women in literature.
Villains in literature.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781801175661
DOI10.1108/9781801175647
Physical Description1 online resource (284 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Natalie Le Clue and Janelle Vermaak-Griessel Gender
  • Chapter 1. "'to destroy. To hate. to sow seeds of chaos. You know, just girly things'": Evil queens, femslash fandom and monstrous happiness / Alice M. Kelly
  • Chapter 2. Scary good: Queering the villain-hero dichotomy in contemporary fairy tale retellings / Alba Morollón Díaz-Faes
  • Chapter 3. A tale of two mothers: Recombining villainy and motherhood in maleficent: Mistress of evil (2019) / Rebecca Rowe
  • Chapter 4. When the magic mirror lies: Gender, vanity, body dysmorphia, and the wicked queen / Sara Austin Screen Narratives
  • Chapter 5. 'Pretty ballads hide bastard truths': Patriarchal narratives and female power in netflix's the witcher / Kirsty Worrow
  • Chapter 6. Positioning mrs. Coulter in bbc/hbo his dark materials / Giulia Bigongiari
  • Chapter 7. Female power and corruption: Snow white and the evil queen through the ages / Sarah Faber
  • Chapter 8. The reimagined female villain in george r.r. Martin's a song of ice and fire / Amit Kardosh Character Reformations
  • Chapter 9. The stepmother problem: How an information deficit in film creates female villains / Rebecca Gadd
  • Chapter 10. These violent delights': Remodeling the fembot archetype in ex machina and westworld / Kirsty Worrow
  • Chapter 11. The fairest evil looming over earth: Representations of the evil queen in 21st century "snow white" adaptations / Svea Hundertmark
  • Chapter 12. "evil isn't born, it's made": Redefining the fairytale villain for contemporary television storytelling / Natalie Le Clue Physicality
  • Chapter 13. Maimed wings and broken hearts: Physical disability, social exclusion, and maternal love in disney's maleficent and maleficent: Mistress of evil / Hannah Helm
  • Chapter 14. "poor, unfortunate souls": Fan perception of ursula the sea witch from disney's the little mermaid (1989) / Janelle Vermaak-Griesse
  • Chapter 15. A rhetoric of evil: The clichéd motif of the evil queen / Natalie Le Clue and Janelle Vermaak-Griesse Conclusion.

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