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Social Science Popular Culture

Fairy Tale Films

Visions of Ambiguity

edited by Pauline Greenhill & Sidney Eve Matrix

Publisher
Utah State University Press
Initial publish date
Aug 2010
Category
Popular Culture, Folklore & Mythology
Recommended Age
0 to 18
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780874217810
    Publish Date
    Aug 2010
    List Price
    $35.95

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In this, the first collection of essays to address the development of fairy tale film as a genre, Pauline Greenhill and Sidney Eve Matrix stress, "the mirror of fairy-tale film reflects not so much what its audience members actually are but how they see themselves and their potential to develop (or, likewise, to regress)." As Jack Zipes says further in the foreword, “Folk and fairy tales pervade our lives constantly through television soap operas and commercials, in comic books and cartoons, in school plays and storytelling performances, in our superstitions and prayers for miracles, and in our dreams and daydreams. The artistic re-creations of fairy-tale plots and characters in film—the parodies, the aesthetic experimentation, and the mixing of genres to engender new insights into art and life—mirror possibilities of estranging ourselves from designated roles, along with the conventional patterns of the classical tales.”
Here, scholars from film, folklore, and cultural studies move discussion beyond the well-known Disney movies to the many other filmic adaptations of fairy tales and to the widespread use of fairy tale tropes, themes, and motifs in cinema.

About the authors

 

Pauline Greenhill is a professor at the University of Winnipeg.

 

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