Witches, Bitches and Femmes Fatales: Viewing the Female Grotesque in Children's Films

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  • Kerry Mallan

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https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl2000vol10no1art1351

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children's films, femininity, gender roles, witches, social norms, transgressions

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FILMS

Fatal Attraction (1987) Paramount Pictures.

Gilda (1946) Columbia.

The Little Mermaid (1989) Disney Enterprises (videorecording).

Dalmatians (1996) Disney Enterprises (videorecording).

The Witches (1989) Lorimar Film Entertainment (videorecording).

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2000-01-01

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“Witches, Bitches and Femmes Fatales: Viewing the Female Grotesque in Children’s Films” (2000) Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature, 10(1), pp. 26–35. doi:10.21153/pecl2000vol10no1art1351.

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