Fairy Tales on the Teen Screen Rituals of Girlhood
This book examines how the fairy tale is currently being redeployed and revised on the contemporary teen screen. The author redeploys Victor Turner’s work on liminality for a feminist agenda, providing a new and productive method for thinking about
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Rituals of Girlhood
Athena Bellas
Fairy Tales on the Teen Screen
Athena Bellas
Fairy Tales on the Teen Screen Rituals of Girlhood
Athena Bellas University of Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
ISBN 978-3-319-64972-6 ISBN 978-3-319-64973-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-64973-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017953108 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: Westend61 GmbH/Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Preface
This book emerges during a period in which teen girls’ screen media culture is saturated with fairy tale narratives, themes and images. These are powerful and persistent popular myths through which a range of fears, desires and hopes for the feminine rite of passage from adolescence into adulthood are staged and imagined. I am interested in this contemporary trend, particularly because it produces a range of challenging, complex and often contradictory images of girlhood. Furthermore, my fascination with the fairy tale lies in its dual capacity to be mobilised for profoundly conservative purposes, as well as for its rebellious zones of wonder and pure potential. For example, many contemporary teen revisions of the tales work to increase the agency of the heroine in interesting and complex ways, while often simultaneously cleaving to such familiar tropes as the heterosexual happily ever after as the pinnacle of success in the girl’s coming of age story. The research conducted in this book is motivated by questions about how youthful femininity is constructed in both traditional, canonical versions of fairy tales, as wel
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