Whitehurst, KF ORCID: 0000-0002-6678-4800
(2018)
Growing Up in Magical Time: Representations of Female Growth and Development in ABC's Once Upon a Time.
Narrative Culture, 5 (1).
pp. 1-14.
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Abstract
This article examines ABC's televisual fairy-tale adaptation Once Upon a Time (2011- present) by investigating how the organization of episodic storylines within the show challenges chronometric accounts of time, temporality, and growth. It considers how the female characters' emotional development in magical time facilitates a level of fluidity within representations of their growth and character development. Centrally, this article demonstrates how the intersection between form and content moves the tale away from a narrative of devil woman as crone to alternatively reinforce dominant Western ideas surrounding the importance of "ideal" development in youth.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Fairy tales, Growth and development, Television programs, Childhood, Emotional development, Character development, Narratives, Chronometry, Mothers, Age |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
Date Deposited: | 09 Nov 2017 09:53 |
Last Modified: | 29 May 2023 14:24 |
DOI: | 10.13110/narrcult.5.1.0001 |
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URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3011819 |