Description
Book Synopsis Through its six-season run, television''s Grimm used the extraordinary to illuminate the complexity of the ordinary. Drawing on the Brothers Grimm folklore, the series crafted an enchanted present to illuminate social and ethical challenges facing Western--in particular American--culture at the beginning of the 21st century. This collection of new essays explores Grimm''s critique of identity and justice in the modern world contexts of race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, environmentalism, genre and heroism, with a focus on the show''s disruptive adaptation of fairy tales and reinterpretation of the police procedural in a fantasy landscape.
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Melanie D. Holm
- Part One: Identity and Identification
- All About Eve: Juliette's Original
- Melanie D. Holm
- Liminal Spaces and Identity in Grimm
- Andrea Yingling
- Opening the Trailer Door to Queer Possibilities
- Daniel Farr
- Grimm: Fantasy, Procedurals, and Rape Culture
- Anastasia Rose Hyden
- Part Two: Justice and Social Spaces
- Grimm: Disillusioning Privilege and Developing a Practice of Listening
- Matthew Grinder
- The Wesen Next Door: The Racial Dynamics of Grimm
- Melanie D. Holm
- Folk Creatures: What Can Justice Do with These People?
- Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Emiliano Aguilar
- Witches, Stepmothers, and Princesses: Rethinking Gender and Money in Grimm
- Sarah Revilla-Sanchez
- Pro-Animal Ideology and the Philosophy of Coexistence: An Ecocritical Perspective on Grimm
- Tatiana Konrad
- Part Three: Media and Genre
- Who's Still Afraid of the Wolf? Fairy-Tale Characters as a Medium of Cultural Change
- Sara Casoli
- It Is Up to the "One" … Or Is It? The Significance of Others in 21st-Century TV Hero Tales
- Kathleen McDonald
- Grimm Afterlives: The Show Lives On in the Media Tie-In Novels
- Rachel Noorda
- About the Contributors
- Index
