"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"--
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.
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| Introduction |
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Part One Identity and Identification |
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All About Eve: Juliette's Original Sin |
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19 | (17) |
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Liminal Spaces and Identity in Grimm |
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36 | (16) |
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Opening the Trailer Door to Queer Possibilities |
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52 | (17) |
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Grimm: Fantasy, Procedurals, and Rape Culture |
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69 | (18) |
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Part Two Justice and Social Spaces |
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Grimm: Disillusioning Privilege and Developing a Practice of Listening |
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87 | (17) |
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The Wesen Next Door: The Racial Dynamics of Grimm |
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104 | (19) |
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Folk Creatures: What Can Justice Do with These People? |
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123 | (17) |
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Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns |
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Witches, Stepmothers, and Princesses: Rethinking Gender and Money in Grimm |
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140 | (15) |
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Pro-Animal Ideology and the Philosophy of Coexistence: An Ecocritical Perspective on Grimm |
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155 | (16) |
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Part Three Media and Genre |
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Who's Still Afraid of the Wolf? Fairy-Tale Characters as a Medium of Cultural Change |
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171 | (17) |
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It Is Up to the "One" ... Or Is It? The Significance of Others in 21st-Century TV Hero Tales |
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188 | (14) |
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Grimm Afterlives: The Show Lives On in the Media Tie-In Novels |
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202 | (15) |
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| About the Contributors |
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Daniel Farr is a senior lecturer of sociology at Kennesaw State University, in Kennesaw, Georgia. He has edited special journal issues for Fat Studies, Lesbian Studies, Men and Masculinities and Womens Studies. Melanie D. Holm is an associate professor of English and co-director of the Dessy-Roffman Myth Collaborative at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Indiana, Pennsylvania. She has published in Philological Quarterly, Restoration, The Eighteenth Century and Aphra Behn.
