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Neo-Victorian Transformations in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland

The paper investigates the many transformations of the main heroine in Burton's film Alice in Wonderland (2010) and links them to the deconstruction of gender roles at work in the film, in which the male authority figures are depicted as nurturing and supportive of the heroine's desire to be different, while the female authority figures demand that she conform to social rules. The heroine, through shape-shifting and re-tailoring of her clothes, succeeds in reversing gender roles with the help of male authority figures, inhabits the role of the action hero and achieves a "safe rebellion" (Aschied 2005) against the prescribed rules. The film thus shows to be akin to a number of recent postfeminist films dealing with heroines on the cusp of womanhood which portray the mother-daughter relationship in a negative light and show a departure from feminist ideals of sisterhood.

transformation; neo-Victorian; adaptation; appropriation; gender roles; postfeminism

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