Cultural Depictions of the Stepmother : Literature, Stage, and Screen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parnell, Jo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stepmothers in literature.

Families in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2026.

Summary:

An in-depth study of the cultural figure of the stepmother from a global perspective.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Introduction

1 Why So Wicked? Representations of Stepmothers in Popular German and Algerian Folktales

2 Saviors and Intruders: American Stepmothers of the 1960s Era Hollywood

3 It's a Hard Knock Life: Truman Capote's Holly Golightly, Cinderella, and Evil Stepmother in One Depression-Era, Orphaned Child Bride

4 Warring Women: The Biafran War and Depictions of Stepm(othering)

5 Beyond the Villain: The Stepmother Archetype in Soviet and Baltic Literature

6 Film Noir and Criminal Stepmothers of the Post-Second World War Era

7 From Folklore to Screen: Depicting the Stepmother in Korean Cinema

8 From Euripides to the Present: Reinventing the Ancients' Amorous Stepmother

Afterword

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Parnell, Jo Cultural Depictions of the Stepmother

ISBN:

9798765156452

OCLC:

1602013994