![]() ![]() A predatory fish out of water, adult Wednesday breaks with the gendered coding of ‘niceness’ as ‘the behaviour that gives femininity its form’ (Bramen 2017, p. Her critical perspective is further developed in Hunter’s series with its grown-up version of this monstrously knowing child, who grapples with situations and antagonists all too familiar to contemporary women. ![]() Wednesday, particularly as depicted in Barry Sonnenfeld’s films of the 1990s, grows into a character that is notably outspoken where human weakness and corruption are concerned. Surveying the career of this transmedial character, this chapter reflects on how Wednesday’s ongoing appeal and threat appear embodied in the unsettling image of the precociously knowing, ‘staring child’. ![]() In her web series Adult Wednesday Addams, uber fan Melissa Hunter reimagines a character that first appeared in the macabre comedy of Charles Addams’ original New Yorker cartoons. ![]()
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