S. Short

Broschiertes Buch

Misfit Sisters

Screen Horror as Female Rites of Passage

Beschreibung

This timely study breaks new ground in exploring how recent film and television horror texts articulate a female rite of passage, updating the cautionary concerns found in fairy tales of the past, particularly in warning against predatory men, treacherous females and unhappy family situations.

Autor

SUE SHORT lectures in Film and Media at Birkbeck College, University of London and the University of Hertfordshire, UK. She has written on a variety of science fiction and horror-related themes. She is the author of Cyborg Cinema and Contemporary Subjectivity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-27952-4
• 1st ed. 2006
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 274g
• ISBN-13: 9781349279524
• ISBN-10: 1349279528
• Artikelnr.: 47452783