Misfit Sisters: Screen Horror as Female Rites of Passage

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ISBN-10:: 0230000207
ISBN-13:: 9780230000209
Pub. Date:: 10/31/2006
Publisher:: Palgrave Macmillan UK

ISBN-10:: 0230000207
ISBN-13:: 9780230000209
Pub. Date:: 10/31/2006
Publisher:: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Misfit Sisters: Screen Horror as Female Rites of Passage

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This timelystudybreaks 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.

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ISBN-13:	9780230000209
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/31/2006
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

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.

Preface Introduction Telling Tales: Fairy Tales and Female Rites of Passage Narratives Sex and the Final Girl: Surviving the Slasher Maternal Monsters and Motherly Mentors: Failed Initiations in Carrie and Carrie II Misfit Sisters: Female Kinship and Rivalry in The Craft and Ginger Snaps Fighting Demons: Buffy, Faith, Willow and the Forces of Good and Evil Demeter's Daughters: Wronged Girls and the Mother Avenger Conclusion Bibliography Filmography Index

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