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Misfit Sisters: Screen Horror as Female Rites of Passage
Sue Short
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Description for Misfit Sisters: Screen Horror as Female Rites of Passage
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JFCA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 420.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230000209
SKU
V9780230000209
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Ref
99-15
About Sue Short
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.
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