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  • Wicked and the Heroine’s Journey
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    Wicked the musical wowed audiences by flipping the story everyone knew-presenting Elphaba as a hopeful student stigmatized and outcast for her green skin. The movie expanded this story much further, with a dazzling spectacle of costume and color. Now heroine’s journey and villain’s journey scholar Valerie Estelle Frankel explores how these two paths coalesce. Does Elphaba achie...
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    9,88 €

  • Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1945
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    This book investigates the role of Jewish legends and tropes in the creation and development of speculative fiction during the European Enlightenment, in America’s golden age magazines, superhero comics, and films, and with magical realism trends in South America and Israel, arguing that Jewish writers created and perfected the genre. ...
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    51,34 €

  • The Trans and Non-Binary Hero’s Journey
    Dean Leetal / Valerie Estelle Frankel
    A brave heroine whose quest involves living her true gender. A genderqueer knight who battles the transphobic court to save their prince. Often fearing discovery, the trans hero embarks on adventure, aided by an accepting mentor and other allies, and challenged by transphobic villains and sometimes uncomprehending family members. Ultimately, the trans hero triumphs, finding ...
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    57,31 €

  • Adapting Bridgerton
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    The beloved television show Bridgerton breaks racial barriers as it explores an alternate history in which biracial Queen Charlotte elevated people of color to dukes and earls, welcoming new perspectives in Regency London. Essays in this work examine in detail the hit Netflix series. Topics covered include Bridgerton’s unique, racially conscious casting and its effect on ...
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    71,98 €

  • The Villain’s Journey
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    The villain’s journey is rare in popular culture--most characters are fully-formed tyrants with little to no story arc. However, a few particularly epic series take the time to develop complex villains, including Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Babylon 5, Game of Thrones, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Increasingly, villains’ origin stories have found new popular...
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    57,39 €

  • Star Wars and the Hero’s Journey
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    The original Star Wars trilogy famously follows Joseph Campbell’s model for the hero’s journey, making Luke Skywalker’s story the new hero quest for a modern age. With the nine-plus film saga complete, however, new story patterns have emerged as the hero’s journey is imagined over and over for characters of different ages, genders, and backgrounds. The prequels offer the plo...
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    57,41 €

  • Wonder Women and Bad Girls
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, Shuri, and Black Widow. These four characters portray very different versions of women: the superheroine, the abuse victim, the fourth wave princess, and the spy, respectively. In this in-depth analysis of female characters in superhero media, the author begins by identifying ten eras of superhero media defined by the way they portray women. Foll...
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    57,40 €

  • Fourth Wave Feminism in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    Television is entering a unique era, in which women and minorities no longer serve under white captains but take the lead--and all the other roles as well. In a brilliant new universe where the intersectional values of fourth wave feminism are becoming more widespread, fantasy and science fiction are leading the charge. Shows from Star Wars to Doctor Who are rewriting their ...
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    57,50 €

  • Fourth Wave Feminism in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
     Fourth wave feminism has entered the national conversation and established a highly visible presence in popular media, especially in cutting-edge science fiction and fantasy films and television series. Wonder Woman, the Wasp, and Captain Marvel headline superhero films while Black Panther celebrates nonwestern power. Disney princesses value sisterhood over conventional mar...
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    42,84 €

  • Fan Phenomena
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    Fan Phenomena: Harry Potter is a journey - yes, a magical one - through one of the largest fanbases of all time and its efforts to ensure that The Boy Who Lived would live forever. ...
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    39,40 €

  • The Women of Orphan Black
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    Orphan Black’s Tatiana Maslany plays a host of the show’s main characters, all clones of an illegal experiment. The mighty heroines save one another and destroy the patriarchy while subverting gender expectations. The feminist clones are Sarah, who clashes with her radical feminist foster-mother; Alison, the quintessential post-feminist housewife; Cosima, a second-wave fem...
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    57,44 €

  • Women in Doctor Who
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    Over the past half-century Doctor Who has defined science fiction television. The women in the series--from orphans and heroic mothers to seductresses and clever teachers--flourish in their roles yet rarely surmount them. Some companions rescue the Doctor and charm viewers with their technical brilliance, while others only scream for rescue. The villainesses dazzle with thei...
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    42,75 €

  • Superheroines and the Epic Journey
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    The heroine’s journey echoes throughout ancient legend. Each young woman combats her dark side and emerges stronger. This quest is also a staple of American comic books. Wonder Woman with semi-divine powers gives us a new female-centered creation story. Batgirl, Batwoman and Black Widow discover their enemy is the dark mother or shadow twin, with the savagery they’ve rejecte...
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    28,04 €

  • Outlander’s Sassenachs
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    A time travel epic featuring history and romance, Outlander--unlike most adventure series--is aimed at women audiences. The kilted male characters, the female narrator, the fantastic period costumes are atypical of male-gendered television. Both the show and the novels on which it is based address issues most series shy away from, like breast feeding, abortion and birth cont...
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    28,54 €

  • Adoring Outlander
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    What is behind Outlander fever--the hit television drama’s popularity? Is it author Diana Gabaldon’s teasing posts on social media? Is it the real history reimagined? The highly emotional melodrama? Or is it the take-charge heroine and the sweet hero in a kilt? One of the show’s biggest draws is its multigenre appeal. Gabaldon--whose Outlander novels form the basis of the ...
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    28,32 €

  • The Comics of Joss Whedon
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    A great deal of scholarship has focused on Joss Whedon’s television and film work, which includes Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, The Cabin in the Woods and The Avengers. But Whedon’s work in the world of comics has largely been ignored. He created his own dystopian heroine, Fray, assembled the goofy fannish heroes of Sugarshock, and wro...
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    42,73 €

  • The Symbolism and Sources of Outlander
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    Outlander is much more than a television romance about a World War II nurse and a Jacobite soldier in a fetching kilt. The series--and the massive serial novel on which it is based--has been categorized as a period drama, adventure saga, military history and fantasy epic. Inspired by the Irish legends of Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the prophecies of Brahan Seer, the storyline is ...
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    28,20 €

  • Women in Game of Thrones
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    Game of Thrones, one of the hottest series on television, leaves hundreds of critics divided on how 'feminist' the show really is. Certainly the female characters, strong and weak, embody a variety of archetypes--widow queens, warrior women, damsels in distress, career women, priestesses, crones, mothers and maidens. However, the problem is that most of them play a single ro...
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    28,36 €

  • Teaching with Harry Potter
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    The Harry Potter phenomenon created a surge in reading with a lasting effect on all areas of culture, especially education. Today, teachers across the world are harnessing the power of the series to teach history, gender studies, chemistry, religion, philosophy, sociology, architecture, Latin, medieval studies, astronomy, SAT skills, and much more. These essays discuss the...
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    42,61 €

  • It’s Hard Not to Hate You
    Richard Ed Frankel / Richard Ed. Frankel / Valerie Frankel
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    17,45 €

  • Buffy and the Heroine’s Journey
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    The worlds of Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, and other modern epics feature the Chosen One--an adolescent boy who defeats the Dark Lord and battles the sorrows of the world. Television’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer represents a different kind of epic--the heroine’s journey, not the hero’s. This provocative study explores how Buffy blends 1990s girl power and the path of the war...
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    42,82 €

  • From Girl to Goddess
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    Many are familiar with Joseph Campbell’s theory of the hero’s journey, the idea that every man from Moses to Hercules grows to adulthood while battling his alter-ego. This book explores the universal heroine’s journey as she quests through world myth. Numerous stories from cultures as varied as Chile and Vietnam reveal heroines who battle for safety and identity, thereby ups...
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    42,24 €

  • Thin Is the New Happy
    Valerie Frankel
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    16,47 €