Grimm Realities

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 Women’s 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.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Introduction

Melanie D. Holm

Part One: Identity and Identification

All About Eve: Juliette’s Original

Melanie D. Holm

Liminal Spaces and Identity in Grimm

Andrea Yingling

Opening the Trailer Door to Queer Possibilities

Daniel Farr

Grimm: Fantasy, Procedurals, and Rape Culture

Anastasia Rose Hyden

Part Two: Justice and Social Spaces

Grimm: Disillusioning Privilege and Developing a Practice of Listening

Matthew Grinder

The Wesen Next Door: The Racial Dynamics of Grimm

Melanie D. Holm

Folk Creatures: What Can Justice Do with These People?

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Emiliano Aguilar

Witches, Stepmothers, and Princesses: Rethinking Gender and Money in Grimm

Sarah Revilla-Sanchez

­Pro-Animal Ideology and the Philosophy of Coexistence: An Ecocritical Perspective on Grimm

Tatiana Konrad

Part Three: Media and Genre

Who’s Still Afraid of the Wolf? ­Fairy-Tale Characters as a Medium of Cultural Change

Sara Casoli

It Is Up to the “One” … Or Is It? The Significance of Others in ­21st-Century TV Hero Tales

Kathleen McDonald

Grimm Afterlives: The Show Lives On in the Media ­Tie-In Novels

Rachel Noorda

About the Contributors

Index