Valerie Estelle Frankel teaches English at Mission College and San Jose City College. The author of 75 popular culture books and more than 100 stories and essays, she lives in Sunnyvale, California.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Section I: New Rules

Passing the Mako Mori Test: Female Agency in Men's

Science Fiction and Fantasy Cinema (Tim Posada)

Blockbusters for a New Age: Sisterhood Defeats Angry Young

in Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Last Jedi and Ghostbusters

(Valerie Estelle Frankel)

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movies for Identity Politics in Fourth Wave

Feminism (Aamir Aziz and Farwa Javed)

Imperator Furiosa, Fury Broad: Gender in Mad Max: Fury Road

(Martin Ricksand)

Section II: Deconstruction

From Traditional Slasher to Fourth Wave: Fantastical Reconversion in The Final Girls and Happy Death Day (Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Canela Ailén Rodriguez Fontao and Mariana S. Zárate)

Annihilation, HeLa and the New Weird: Destruction as ­Re-Creation

(Alexis Brooks de Vita)

"Hello, beasty": Uncompromising Motherhood in Disney's

Maleficent (Melissa Wehler)

Section III: Children's Stories

Katniss, the Naive Virgin: Fourth Wave Heroines Recentering ­Neoconservative Values (Paula Talero Álvarez)

Contrivances of Female Empowerment and the Millennial Wave in Disney Movies (Ananya Chatterjee and Nisarga Bhattacharjee)

Making Her Own Destiny: Disney's Diverse Females (Lisann Anders)

Jack Frost and the Heroine's Journey: ­Gender-Bending Back to the Goddess in Rise of the Guardians (Patti McCarthy)

Section IV: Superheroes

Stings Like a Wasp: Janet van Dyne, Hope van Dyne and the Feminist Superheroine in the Ant-Man Films (Don Tresca)

Riding the Waves of Feminism in Wonder Woman: A Shock Heard 'Round the World (Carol ­Zitzer-Comfort and José I. Rodríguez)

Deconstructing the Wonder: Liberal Versus Conservative

Thought in Patty Jenkins's Wonder Woman (Christian Jimenez)

Black Panther and Wonder Woman: A Study in Feminist Representation (Shoshana Kessock)

About the Contributors

Index