Fairy Tale Films Visions of Ambiguity / Pauline Greenhill and Sidney Eve Matrix, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matrix Sidney E.

Contributor:

Matrix, Sidney Eve.

Greenhill, Pauline.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fairy tales--Film adaptations.

Fairy tales.

Fairy tales in motion pictures.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Utah State University, University Libraries 2010

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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,

Contents:

Foreword: Grounding the spell : the fairy tale film and transformation / Jack Zipes

Introduction: Envisioning ambiguity : fairy tale films / Pauline Greenhill and Sidney Eve Matrix

Mixing it up : generic complexity and gender ideology in early twenty-first century fairy tale films / Cristina Bacchilega and John Rieder

Building the perfect product : the commodification of childhood in contemporary fairy tale film / Naarah Sawers

The parallelism of the fantastic and the real : Guillermo del Toro's Pan's labyrinth/El Laberinto del fauno and neomagical realism / Tracie D. Lukasiewicz

Fitting the glass slipper : a comparative study of the princess's role in the Harry Potter novels and films / Ming-Hsun Lin

The shoe still fits : Ever after and the pursuit of a feminist Cinderella / Christy Williams

Mourning mothers and seeing siblings : feminism and place in The juniper tree / Pauline Greenhill and Anne Brydon

Disney's Enchanted : patriarchal backlash and nostalgia in a fairy tale film / Linda Pershing with Lisa Gablehouse

Fairy tale film in the classroom : feminist cultural pedagogy, Angela Carter, and Neil Jordan's The company of wolves / Kim Snowden

A secret midnight ball and a magic cloak of invisibility : the cinematic folklore of Stanley Kubrick's Eyes wide shut / Sidney Eve Matrix

Tim Burton and the idea of fairy tales / Brian Ray.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-238), filmography (p. 239-243), and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612896965

9781282896963

1282896962

9780874217827

0874217822

OCLC:

676698480