Overview

This book is a collection of 13 essays centering on supernatural serials such as television programs, video games, anime, and manga, featuring teen protagonists and marketed to teen audiences. These essays provide discussions of characters in teen supernatural serials who disrupt white, cisgender social narratives, and addresses possible ways that the on-screen depictions of these characters, who may be POC or LGBTQIA+, can lead to additional discussions of more accurate representations of the Other in the media. This collection explores depictions of characters of color and/or LGBTQ characters in teen supernatural serials who were/are marginalized and examines the possible issues that these depictions can raise on a social level and, possibly, a developmental level for audience members who belong to these communities. The essays included in this collection thoroughly examine these characters and their narratives while providing nuanced examinations of how the media chooses to represent teens of color and LGBTQIA+ teens.

Full Product Details

Author:   Camille S. Alexander ,  Camille S. Alexander ,  Ailish Brassil ,  Rebecca Brown
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.612kg
ISBN:  

9781666926750

ISBN 10:   1666926752
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   16 April 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Bonnie Bennett, Final Girl Deanna P. Koretsky Chapter 2: Gender and Race in Stranger Things: Fighting the Demogorgon One Stereotype at a Time Amanda Putnam Chapter 3: Debunking the Normative: Queerness Vis-à-vis “Magic Boys” in Fantasy Anime Ananya Saha Chapter 4: Ghosts of Gothic’s Past in the Present: The Haunting of Bly Manor and New Approaches to Adaptation and Representation for Young Adult Audiences Michelle Drake Chapter 5: To Choose or Be Chosen: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Question of Inheritance M. Soledad Caballero Chapter 6: Shunned Spaces and Queer Spirits: The Spectral Absence of LGBTQIA2S+ in Contemporary Ghost Lore Barry M. Cole Chapter 7: Siblings and the Supernatural: A Compelling Analysis of the Familial Bonds Presented in The Vampire Diaries Ailish Kate Brassil Chapter 8: Everyday Hero: The Hyper-Relatable Superheroes of the Life is Strange franchise Mauro Colarieti Chapter 9: Uncanny and Doubling Horror in Childhood: Abject Disruptions in Stranger Things Amy Janna LeBlanc Chapter 10: Now Memories: Restorative Nostalgia and Anachronistic Queerness in Stranger Things Blue Profitt Chapter 11: “Just Some Guy”: Musicals as an Expression of Queer Desire in Dead End: Paranormal Park Xen Virtue Chapter 12: “Just the Facts”: Erica Sinclair and the Possibility of Black Girlhood in Stranger Things Rebecca Brown Chapter 13: Bonnie ‘will figure it out. She always does.’: The Post-Racial, Pop Culture Mammy and The Vampire Diaries Camille S. Alexander

Reviews

This exciting collection offers a significant and timely contribution to understandings of contemporary televisual media. In its exploration of representations of gender, race and sexuality in teen supernatural serials, it speaks to contemporary debates on media representation and visibility, seriality and storytelling, and the teen and supernatural genre/s. In its engaging selection of chapters, the collection draws out detailed intersectional critiques of the complexities of representation, both celebrating its possibilities and revealing its limitations. These insightful and necessary discussions will be of significant interest to others in the field. --Kate McNicholas Smith, Lecturer in Television Theory, University of Westminster

This exciting collection offers a significant and timely contribution to understandings of contemporary televisual media. In its exploration of representations of gender, race and sexuality in teen supernatural serials, it speaks to contemporary debates on media representation and visibility, seriality and storytelling, and the teen and supernatural genre/s. In its engaging selection of chapters, the collection draws out detailed intersectional critiques of the complexities of representation, both celebrating its possibilities and revealing its limitations. These insightful and necessary discussions will be of significant interest to others in the field. -- Kate McNicholas Smith, Lecturer in Television Theory, University of Westminster

Author Information

Camille S. Alexander is assistant professor of English at Tuskegee University.

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