Abstract

 
 
 This article outlines the role genre plays in the representation of female aging in the films “Mirror Mirror” (Singh 2012) and “Snow White and the Huntsman” (Sanders 2012). Focusing on the queen, the paper considers how the films’ varying generic engagements create alternative story worlds for the queen to take shape and evolve within. From this context, the article argues that the films’ generic alignments become instrumentalized in the (re)construction of regressive and patriarchal representations of the queen found in preceding versions. Revisiting Anita Wohlmann’s question about whether “the movies undermine and expose the tale’s implicit ageism,” the paper centrally argues that the depictions of the queen in both films entrench and supplement, rather than resist, regressive representations of female aging commonly found in preceding “Snow White” adaptations and in Western contemporary popular culture more broadly.
 
 
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