Dead Girl Walking: Girlhood and Happy-Endings in Heathers: The Musical

Miller, Lee ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8074-0591 (2023) Dead Girl Walking: Girlhood and Happy-Endings in Heathers: The Musical. In: The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender & Theatre. Methuen, UK. ISBN 9781350123182 (Submitted)

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This chapter considers how the 2013 musical adaptation of Heathers: The Musical unsettles the gendering of adolescent girls in eighties teen-films, especially in terms of dismantling the traditional idea of the happy ending. The move from screen to stage affords a range of disparate representations not usually found in mainstream Hollywood product. Although itself a populist musical, Heathers offers a subtle radicalism in relationship to its construction of gender models for teenaged girls, and it does this through a subtle refiguring of its source material, and in the case of the 2018 West End version, a confident relationship with social media, and the attendant para-social interaction with contemporary fandom.

Item Type:	Book Section
ISBN:	9781350123182
Subjects:	Philosophy & Psychology Performance > Theatre
Courses by Department:	Academy of Innovation and Research
Depositing User:	Lee Miller
Date Deposited:	08 Nov 2023 14:10
Last Modified:	27 Oct 2024 10:17
URI:	https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/5221

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