Fairy Tales On The Teen Screen: Rituals Of Girlhood
Tags: Athena Bellas

This book examines how the fairy tale is currently being redeployed and revised on the contemporary teen screen. The author redeploys Victor Turners work on liminality for a feminist agenda, providing a new and productive method for thinking about girlhood onscreen. While many studies of teenagehood and teen film briefly invoke Turners concept, it remains an underdeveloped framework for thinking about youth onscreen. The books broad scope across teen mediaincluding film, television, and online mediacontributes to the need for contemporary analysis and theorisation of our multimedia cultural climate.