This book examines how the fairy tale is currently being redeployed and revised on the contemporary teen screen. The author redeploys Victor Turners 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 Turners concept, it remains an underdeveloped framework for thinking about youth onscreen. The books broad scope across teen mediaincluding film, television, and online mediacontributes to the need for contemporary analysis and theorisation of our multimedia cultural climate.
1. Introduction: Fairy Tales on the Contemporary Teen Screen.-?2. Living on the Edge: An Escape to the Forest in Catherine Hardwickes
Red Riding Hood (2011).-?3. When Sleeping Beauty Wakes: The
Twilight Film Series, Liminal Time and Fantasy Images.-?4. Liminal Communitas and Feminist Solidarity: Transforming Bluebeard in
Pretty Little Liars (King 2010 ).-?5. Cinderellas Transformation: Liminality and Style as Subversion in
Gossip Girl (Schwartz and Savage 2007-12).-?6. The Mermaids Tale: Ultraliminality and Feminist Futures in
Aquamarine (Allen 2006).-?7. Conclusion: Rituals of Girlhood Transformed on the Teen Screen.
Athena Bellas is a tutor, lecturer, subject co-ordinator and Honours supervisor in the Faculty of Arts and the Screen and Cultural Studies Department, University of Melbourne, Australia.
?This book examines how the fairy tale is currently being redeployed and revised on the contemporary teen screen. The author redeploys Victor Turners 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 Turners concept, it remains an undl-
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