Heavenly Creatures - Queer Fantasy and the Coming-Of-Age Film

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Frightfully Romantic: Adapting the Parker/Hulme Case
2. Love in the Bush: Colonial Desire, Lesbian Identity
3. The Fourth World: Fantasy, Spectacle, and the Cinematic
4. A Heavenly Crusade: Internet Fandom and Archival Communities
Conclusion

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Andrew Scahill is Assistant Professor of English at Salisbury University, USA.

Zusammenfassung

Heavenly Creatures (1994), an early film by blockbuster director Peter Jackson, chronicles the true story of Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme, two adolescent girls in 1954 New Zealand. In the film, the girls develop a deep romantic friendship based in shared fantasy, but their forced separation leads the pair to descend into madness and commit matricide. This book turns to feminist and queer theory, postcolonial theory, auteur analysis, apparatus theory, new media studies, and reception studies to seeks to unpack the film’s complex portrait of adolescent turmoil, rebellion, and tragedy.

Zusatztext

"Scahill offers the most detailed and comprehensive study of Peter Jackson’s breakthrough film yet published, providing a new perspective on its appeal to an international fan base." -- Alistair Fox, University of Otago

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Scahill, Andrew Scahill, Andrew (Salisbury University Scahill
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheint: 31.01.2019, verspätet
• EAN: 9781138063884
• ISBN: 978-1-138-06388-4
• Seiten: 104
• Serien: Cinema and Youth Cultures; Cinema and Youth Cultures
• Thema: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Medien, Kommunikation > Medienwissenschaft