Transformative masculinities : re-examining the role of the male in Red Riding Hood
Smith, Fiona and McKay, Fiona; Le Clue, Natalie, ed. (2024) Transformative masculinities : re-examining the role of the male in Red Riding Hood. In: Gender and the Male character in 21st Century Fairy Tale Narratives. Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender . Emerald, Leeds, pp. 75-86. ISBN 9781837537907 (https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83753-788-420241007)
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Abstract
Red Riding Hood is said to have been assembled from folktales that pre-date the collector Charles Perrault's 1697 re-telling and initial publishing (Dundes, 1989; Zipes, 1993). Since then, it is a story that has been re-told and re-imagined many times in various media contexts, with Beckett suggesting that it is one of the most familiar icons of Western culture, and a ‘highly effective intertextual referent’ (Beckett, 2002, p. XVI). Even though this story has been generally regarded as a children's tale, adult themes of sexuality and transgression have been explored in modern re-conceptions. In this chapter, we examine the representation of gender and masculinity in commercial media output: the 2011 American film Red Riding Hood (Hardwicke, 2011) and the pilot episode of the NBC series Grimm (2011). In Red Riding Hood, a romantic horror film, the male characters may be regarded as satellites that cluster around the female protagonist, whereas in Grimm, through its generic fusion of police procedural and horror genres, the text plays upon strong established examples of traditional male roles alongside more nuanced and contemporary representations of masculinity. Our analysis explores themes of transformation and heteronormativity and the extent to which the texts challenge or conform to traditional tellings.
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Smith, Fiona and McKay, Fiona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5418-9713; Le Clue, Natalie-
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Item type: Book Section ID code: 90564 Dates: DateEvent16 September 2024Published24 April 2023SubmittedSubjects: Language and Literature > Childrens literature
Social Sciences > The family. Marriage. Women > Gender identity
Social Sciences > Transportation and Communications
Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > FolkloreDepartment: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Humanities > Journalism Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 13 Sep 2024 15:10 Last modified: 28 Sep 2024 13:40 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/90564