Heroic Girls as Figures of Resistance and Futurity in Popular Culture

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	Heroic Girls in the 21st Century
	The Journey from ‘Last’ to ‘First’
	Notes
	Works Cited
Part I: Theoretical Approaches
	Chapter 1: The Narratives of Survival: Final Girls in Videogames
		The Tortured Survivor
		The Final Girl and Videogame Genre
		The Final Girl and Videogame Narrative
		Works Cited
	Chapter 2: Fighting Fate: Representations of a ‘New Order’ in Beautiful Creatures
		Note
		Works Cited
	Chapter 3: The Shadow Self and the New Girl: Breaking Down the Old Worlds in Ursula Le Guin’s The Tombs of Atuan and N.K. Jemisin’s The Stone Sky
		Works Cited
	Chapter 4: ‘She would never fall, because her friend was flying with her’: Gothic Hybridity, Queer Girls and Exceptional States in Helen Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl (2005) and M. R. Carey’s The Girl with All the Gifts (2014)
		Note
		Works Cited
	Chapter 5: Cheerleaders, Orphans, School Girls: The Persistent Sounding Riot (Grrrl) in the (Televisual) Apocalypse
		Not Another White Man’s Lament
		‘This Is How Many Apocalypses for Us Now?’ (Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2002)
		‘How Dare You?’ (Thunberg 2019)
		The Spectacle of Our Own Destruction
		Notes
		Works Cited
Part II: Cross-Cultural Heroes
	Chapter 6: Tranquilas: Monstrous Resistance and Feminist Storytelling
		Tranquilas and Violence
		Girls Becoming Monsters
		Women Becoming Storytellers
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 7: Sister-matic Cannibalism in the Dying Breed: Heterotopic Representations of Australia’s Lingering Colonial Connectivity
		Introduction: The End Is the Beginning
		Paratextual Pointers: The Sliding Emergence of the Cannibal
		From Paratext to Cinematic Text: Sounds of Silence
		Conclusion
		Works Cited
	Chapter 8: Seeking Resistance in Tropes: A Reading of the Final Girl Tropes Used in NH10 and Stree and Its Socio-Cultural Significance
		Women with Agency: A Post-2012 Trend in Bollywood
		A Final Girl for a Bollywood Trend: The Research Model
		NH10: Slashing Patriarchy with Swag
		Stree: A Final Girl Who Can Do Anything
		Conclusion
		Note
		Works Cited
	Chapter 9: A Gothic Agent of Revolt: The Rebel Child Hero in Pan’s Labyrinth
		Gothic Settings and Gothic Heroes in Fascist Spain
		From Resistance to Domestication
		Rebellious Actions and Fatal Consequences
		Conclusion: An Antifascist Fairy Tale
		Works Cited
	Chapter 10: From Vancouver Island to the City of Troy: Prophecy, Heroism, and Indigenous Classical Reception in Catherine Knutsson’s Shadows Cast by Stars
		Introduction
		Some Thoughts on Indigenous Classical Reception
		(Not) Believing the Prophetess: Cassandra and the Idea of Heroism
		Claiming and Being Claimed: Cassandra and Sisiutl
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
Part III: Resistance, Revenge, Reimagining
	Chapter 11: Coralie Fargeat’s Revenge (2017) and the Rape-Revenge Action Hero
		Introduction
		The Set-Up: Jen as Object of the Male Gaze
		The Rape: Objectification Turns Violent
		The Revenge: Jen as Formidable Action Hero
		Updating the Rape-Revenge Film
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 12: ‘What about you, Maxine? What’s your American Dream?’: X and Pearl Radically Refit the Final Girl with an Axe and Hack Apart the American Pastoral
		Final Girls Growing Up over the Decades
		X and Pearl
		A Prequel: Conceptual Framework for Femmeslay Interjection
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 13: After the Credits Roll: Jade Daniels, Trauma, and the Postmodern Final Girl
		Introduction
		Meet Jade, Final Girl
		Jade Daniels, Final Girls, and the Spectres of Trauma
		Jade Daniels, The Postmodern Final Girl
		Final Words
		Works Cited
	Chapter 14: Killer Girls: Red Riding Hood, Girlhood, and the Final Girl
		Blood and Bestial Urges: The Killer (Wolf) Girl in Ginger Snaps
		Female Rage and the Heroic Vigilante Killer Girl
		Note
		Acknowledgement
		Works Cited
	Chapter 15: The Witcher and Ciri of Cintra as the Heroic Final Girl
		Introduction
		The Ordeal of the Final Girl
		The Survival of the Final Girl
		The Final Girl as a Monstress
		The Final Girl as the Figure of Futurity and Hope
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
Part IV: Into the Future
	Chapter 16: Persephone Distorted: From Teen Witch to Queen of Hell — The Evolution of Sabrina
		Introduction
		Which Witch Is Which?
		Comic Sabrina
		Millennial Sabrina
		Horror Sabrina
		Coming of Age and Defining the (Female) Self
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 17: ‘The Witch Forever Lives’: Redefining the Path for Empowered Final Girls in the Trilogy Fear Street
		Survival Mode: Behavioural Dynamics in Slasher Narratives
		Fear Street: New Avenues for the Final Girl
		Embracing Transgression
		Looking Back
		Intra-female Relationships
		Sarah Fier: The Witch Forever Lives
		Works Cited
	Chapter 18: Last Jedi, Final Girl: Rey, Resistance, and the Future of Star Wars
		Introduction
		‘You Have No Place in This Story’: Locating Rey as Final Girl
		‘You Know I Can Take Whatever I Want’: Surviving the Unsurvivable
		Surviving Ever After
		Conclusion
		Note
		Works Cited
	Chapter 19: The Environmental Context for Hope and Heroism in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games Trilogy and M. R. Carey’s The Girl with All the Gifts
		Introduction
		The Anthropocene Space and Its Heroine: Katniss in the Arena
		Stepping out of the Anthropocene: Melanie in the Infected World
		Conclusion: The Heroic ‘Bettering’ of the World
		Notes
		Works Cited
Index