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- Title
SUPERNATURAL GIRLS.
- Authors
Sweeney, Kathleen
- Abstract
The article discusses contemporary teenage heroines in the U.S. Since the mid-1990s, popular culture has expanded its collection of female icons to include teenage girls endowed with special powers like television's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and film characters like Jen Yu of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hermione Granger of the Harry Potter series, Rogue of X-Men and X2, and Violet of The Incredibles. Due in part to our culture of television reruns and serial movies, Buffy, Rogue, Jen Yu, Hermione, and Violet will continue to penetrate our collective narratives, joined no doubt by new characters and concepts in girlhood.
- Subjects
WOMEN heroes; WOMEN in popular culture; WOMEN in mass media; TEENAGE girls; BUFFY the Vampire Slayer (Fictional character)
- Publication
Afterimage, 2006, Vol 33, Issue 5, p13
- ISSN
0300-7472
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1525/aft.2006.33.5.13