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Heroic girls as figures of resistance and futurity in popular culture / edited by Simon Bacon

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New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
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Bacon, Simon, 1965-
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The narratives of survival : final girls in videogames / Carl Wilson -- Fighting fate : representations of a 'new order 'in Beautiful creatures / Lauren Christie -- The shadow self and the new girl : breaking down the old worlds in Ursula Le Guin's The tombs of Atuan and N.K. Jemisin's The stone sky / Bronwen Calvert -- 'She would never fall, because her friend was flying with her' : gothic hybridity, queer girls and exceptional states in Helen Oyeyemi's The Icarus girl (2005) and M. R. Carey's The Girl with all the Gifts (2014) / Robyn Ollett -- Cheerleaders, orphans, school girls : the persistent sounding Riot(Grrrl) in the (televisual) apocalypse / Renee T. Coulombe -- Tranquilas : monstrous resistance and feminist storytelling / Inés Ordiz -- Sister-matic cannibalism in the Dying breed : heterotopic representations of Australia's lingering colonial connectivity / Phil Fitzsimmons -- Seeking resistance in tropes : a reading of the final girl trope's used in NH10 and Stree and its socio-cultural significance / Debaditya Mukhopadhyay -- A gothic agent of revolt : the rebel child hero in Pan's labyrinth / Michail-Chrysovalantis Markodimitrakis -- From Vancouver Island to the City of Troy : prophecy, heoism, and indigenous classical reception in Catherine Knutsson's Shadows cast by stars / Svetlana Seibel -- Coralie Fargeat's Revenge (2017) and the rape-revenge action hero / M. Keith Booker -- 'What about you, Maxine? What's your American dream?' : X and Pearl radically refit the final girl with an axe and hack apart the American pastoral / Stephanie Schoellman -- After the credits roll : Jade Daniels, trauma and the postmodern final girl / J. Simpson -- Killer girls : Red Riding Hood, girlhood and the final girl / Cristina Santos -- The witcher and Ciri of Cintra as the heroic final girl / Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska -- Persephone distorted : from teen witch to queen of hell -- the evolution of Sabrina / Karen Graham -- 'The witch forever lives' : redefining the path for empowered final girls in the trilogy Fear street / Bruna Foletta Lucas -- Last Jedi, final girl : Rey, resistance, and the future of Star wars / Cathleen Allyn Conway -- The environmental context for hope and heroism in Suzanne Collins's The hunger games trilogy and M.R. Carey's The girl with all the gifts / Ildikó Limpár.
Summary
"Heroic Girls looks at the recent proliferation of young girl heroes in many recent mainstream films and books. These contemporary 'final' girls do not just survive but rather suggest that in doing so they have fundamentally changed something about themselves and or the world around them seeing them become the 'First Girls' of this altered reality. The collection brings together a wide range of perspectives and cultural viewpoints that describe many recent narratives which explore the idea of a Final Girl and her "after-story". The essays are divided into four sections, beginning with more theoretical approaches; cross-cultural examples; the ways in which fictional narratives bear strong relation to real world circumstances; examples that more strongly depict themes of resistance, survival, and individual agency; and, finally, those that describe something more fundamental and transformative. Films and television shows covered in the collection include: The Girl with All the Gifts, The Witcher, The Hunger Games, Star Wars, The Fear Street and Pans Labyrinth. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of Film Studies, Gender Studies and Media Studies"--
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9781003197775 (ebook)
1003197779
9781040014318 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
1040014313 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
9781040014295 (electronic bk. : PDF)
1040014291 (electronic bk. : PDF)
9781032054919 (hardback)
9781032054926 (paperback)
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