Final girls, feminism and popular culture. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, Stacy Rusnak.
• Editors: Paszkiewicz, Katarzyna; Rusnak, Stacy
• Contents: 1 Introduction: Reimagining the Final Girl in the 21st Century.- Katarzyna Paszkiewicz and Stacy Rusnak.- SECTION 1.- From Slasher Films to Slasher TV Series.- 2 'People Call Me a Final Girl, But We're All Final Girls in Lakewood': Female Survivor(s) in Scream: The TV Series.- Isabel Clúa.- 3 The Final Girl(s): Queerness, Normativity and Survival in Scream Queens.- Peter Marra.- SECTION 2.- The Final Girl(s) in Horror Film.- 4 Who Are We? Queering the Final Girl in Alexandre Aja's High Tension (2003).- Rebecca Willoughby.- 5 Get Out: Moral Monsters at the Intersection of Racism and the Horror Film.- Isabel Pinedo.- 6 The Slasher Film and the Final Girl Get Makeovers: It Follows and the Politics of Fourth Wave Feminism.- Stacy Rusnak.- 7 'Wouldst Thou Like to Live Deliciously?': Gothic Feminism and the Final Girl in Robert Eggers' The Witch (2015).- Vicki Madden.- SECTION 3.- The Final Girl(s) Beyond the Horror Genre.- 8 Sinister Power Play and the Final Girl: Katniss Everdeen in Suzanne Collin's The Hunger Games Trilogy.- Sara Martín.- 9 Monstrous Final Girls: The Posthuman Body in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl and M.R. Carey's The Girl with All the Gifts.- Isabel Santaulària.- 10 Other Girl Powers: Final Girls, Super Girls and Kamala Khan's Ms. Marvel.- Andrea Ruthven.- SECTION 4.- Ways of Seeing: The Final Girl(s) and Spectatorship.- 11 The Final Girl in the Red Dress: Ways of Moving in the Resident Evil Films.- Steven Rybin.- 12 'What Were We – Idiots?': Re-evaluating Female Spectatorship and the New Horror Heroine with Catherine Hardwicke's Twilight (2008).- Angie Fazekas and Dan Vena.- 13 'Just Keep Looking Forward or We'll Be Stuck Here Forever': The Final Girls (2015), Spectatorial Address and Transformations of the Slasher Form.- Katarzyna Paszkiewicz.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 305.23082; Girls; Feminism; Girls in motion pictures; Girls in popular culture
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030315238
• Related ISBNs: 9783030315221
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