But there’s another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wits and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life. ...
What happens to Coraline in the book? Coraline discovers another abandoned apartment in her house that has been closed off with a brick wall. While her mother is out one day, Coraline goes back to the door to find that the passageway is now open. On the other side are mirrors of her ...
Coraline: Directed by Henry Selick. With Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French. Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, a young girl discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life that seems t
"big and black and shiny." While initially enjoying the good food and attention, Coraline finds more and more to worry her. Her other mother insists they want her to stay forever
You’ll notice, he emphasized the fact that I am a mother, a writer and, of course, my hotness. According to my son, now I can write about all the things that I think are hot. Like the sun and my boots and summer. *ahem* And while that may be be true, I’m still not conv...
On the surface, this other world eerily mimics her own life - though much more fantastical. In it, Coraline encounters such off-kilter inhabitants as the morbidly funny Miss Forcible and Miss Spink (French and Ms. Saunders, respectively), and a counterfeit mother (Hatcher) - who attempts to...
read in the tea leaves. It's the other house - the one behind the old door in the drawing room. Another mother and father with black-button eyes and papery skin are waiting for Coraline to join them there. And they want her to stay with them. For ever. She knows that if she ventu...
or the cat that always seems to be watching her, nor the signs of danger that Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, her new neighbours, read in the tea leaves. It's the other house - the one behind the old door in the drawing room. Another mother and father with black-button eyes and paper...
One of the new figures is a Pop Deluxe figure that features Coraline crawling through the tunnel that launches the film's conflict. The tunnel, of course, is a portal that leads to the Other World, which is inhabited by the Beldam, or the Other Mother, as Coraline calls her. The figure...
Central to Coraline's experiences in the fantasy world beyond the walls of her flat is the 'other' mother, who is initially constructed as an idealised image of maternal care whose only concern is for the welfare and comfort of her child... V Muller - 《Outskirts Feminisms Along the Edge...