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- Title
"Welcome to Civilization": Colonialism, the Gothic, and Canada's Self-protective Irony in the "Ginger Snaps" Werewolf Trilogy.
- Authors
Rothenburger, Sunnie
- Abstract
In this essay the author takes a closer look at the "Ginger Snaps" werewolf trilogy, examining the films' construction of colonial history and this history's continuing influence in Canada. The films use a combination of irony and the gothic to critique colonialism, but they do so in a way that places them within larger patterns of English-Canadian culture where the nation is only moderately criticized by such creative strategies. Ultimately, the films uphold racial hierarchies, maintain an essentialized idea of the nation itself, and occasionally appear to laud its power, even when the nation might initially or in some ways appear to be under figurative attack.
- Subjects
CANADA; GINGER Snaps (Film); HORROR films; GINGER Snaps Back: The Beginning (Film); GINGER Snaps: Unleashed (Film); NATIONALISM in motion pictures; MOTION pictures
- Publication
Journal of Canadian Studies, 2010, Vol 44, Issue 3, p96
- ISSN
0021-9495
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.3138/jcs.44.3.96