Description
Book SynopsisFrom Cinderella to comic con to colonialism and more, this companion provides readers with a comprehensive and current guide to the fantastic, uncanny, and wonderful worlds of the fairy tale across media and cultures. It offers a clear, detailed, and expansive overview of contemporary themes and issues throughout the intersections of the fields of fairy-tale studies, media studies, and cultural studies, addressing, among others, issues of reception, audience cultures, ideology, remediation, and adaptation. Examples and case studies are drawn from a wide range of pertinent disciplines and settings, providing thorough, accessible treatment of central topics and specific media from around the globe.
Trade Review"[...] the interdisciplinary mode of this text offers a fascinating and needed intervention in the field, relocating criticism of fairy tales from historically and nationally based analysis of when and where fairy tales operate and in what contexts, to how fairy tales travel across cultures and media and how this impacts the perceived function of the tales. To decouple fairy tales from their assumed spaces and relocate them within a media culture that is constantly transforming and recreating itself is a step long needed in the field of fairy-tale studies." - Michelle Anya Anjirbag, in Jeunesse, Vol 11 No 1 (2019)
Table of ContentsBasic Concepts
Overview of Basic Concepts: Folklore, Fairy Tale, Culture, and Media
Jill Terry Rudy
Definition and History of Fairy Tales
Carl Lindahl
Constructing Fairy-Tale Media Forms: Texts, Textures, Contexts
Vanessa Nunes and Pauline Greenhill
Analytical Approaches
Formalism
Jill Terry Rudy
Psychology
Veronica Schanoes
Marxism
Andrew Teverson
Performance
Patricia Sawin and Milbre Burch
Feminism
Allison Craven
Postmodernism
Cristina Bacchilega
Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Decolonization
Cristina Bacchilega and Sadhana Naithani
Issues
Political and Identity Issues
Activism (Folktales and Social Justice: When Marvelous Tales from the Oral Tradition Help Rethink and Stir the Present from the Margins)
Vivian Labrie
Disability
Ann Schmiesing
Gender
Anne Duggan
Indigeneity (E Hoʻokikohoʻe iā Peʻapeʻamakawalu [Digitizing the Eight-Eyed Bat]: Indigenous Wonder Tales, Culture, and Media)
ku’ualoha ho’omanawanui
Orientalism (Excavation and Representation: Two Orientalist Modes in Fairy Tales)
Jenny Heijun Wills
Thematic Issues
Adaptation and the Fairy-Tale Web
Cristina Bacchilega
Advertising
Olivia Weigeldt
Convergence Culture (Media Convergence, Convergence Culture, and Communicative Capitalism)
Ida Yoshinaga
Crime/Justice
Sue Short
Disney Corporation
Lynda Haas and Shaina Trapedo
Hybridity
Francisco Vaz da Silva
Intellectual Property
John Laudun
Pornography
Catherine Tosenberger
Storyworlds/Narratology
Katharine Young
Intersectional Issues
Animal Studies
Pauline Greenhill and Leah Claire Allen
Children’s and Young Adult (YA) Literature
Anna Kérchy
Fandom/Fan Cultures
Anne Kustritz
Fat Studies ("Where Everything Round is Good:" Exploring and Reimagining Fatness in Fairy-Tale Media)
Lauren Bosc
Language
B. Grantham Aldred
Oral Tradition
Martin Lovelace
Pedagogy
Claudia Schwabe
Sexualities/Queer and Trans Studies
Pauline Greenhill
Translation (Written Forms)
Karen Seago
Communicative Media
Print
William Gray
Pictorial ("Such Strange Transformations:" Burne-Jones’s Cinderella and Domestic Technologies)
Molly Clark Hillard
Material Culture (Fairy Tale Things: Studying Fairy Tales from a Material Culture Perspective)
Meredith A. Bak
Theater
Jennifer Schacker
Photographic
Mayako Murai
Cinematic
Pauline Greenhill
Broadcast (Radio and Television)
Jill Terry Rudy
Digital ("Blood and Glitter:" Fairy Tales as Text, Texture, and Context in Digital Media)
Lynne S. McNeill
Expressive Genres and Venues
Anime and Manga ("You Love Your Father, Don’t You?": The Influence of Tale Type 510B on Japanese Manga/Anime)
Bill Ellis
Anthologies and Tale Collections
Jessie Riddle
Autobiography
Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère
Blogs and Websites (Narrativizing the Daily "Once Upon a Time:" Re-Envisioning the Fairy-Tale Present with Fairy-Tale Blogs)
Lindsay Brown
Chapbooks
Maria Kaliambou
Children’s Museums
Naomi Hamer
Children’s Picture Books and Illustrations
Balaka Basu
Children’s Television
Jodi McDavid and Ian Brodie
Cinema Science Fiction
John Rieder
Classical Music
Pauline Greenhill and Danishka Esterhazy
Comics and Graphic Novels (Fairy-Tale Graphic Narrative)
Emma Whatman
Comic Cons (Fairy-Tale Culture and Comic Conventions: Perpetuating Storytelling Traditions)
Emma Nelson
Contemporary Art
Amanda Slack-Smith
Criticism
Vanessa Joosen
Fan Fiction
Anne Kustritz
Fantasy
Ming-Hsun Lin
Food (Sugar-Coated Fairy Tales and the Contemporary Cultures of Consumption)
Natalia Andrievskikh
Horror
Sue Short
Mobile Apps
Cynthia Nugent
Music Videos and Pop Music
Rebecca Hutton and Emma Whatman
Musicals
Jill Terry Rudy
Novels
Christy Williams
Opera
Pauline Greenhill
Poetry (Fairy-Tale Poems: The Winding Path to Illo Tempore)
Michael Joseph
Reality Television
Vanessa Nunes
Romance (The Transmedial Romance of "Beauty and the Beast")
Tomasz Z. Majkowski and Agata Zarzycka
Storytelling (Fairy Tales in Contemporary American and European Storytelling Performance)
Joseph Sobol and Csenge Virág Zalka
Traditional Song
Pauline Greenhill and Jill Terry Rudy
Television Drama (Fairy Tales and American TV Drama)
Mikel Koven
Video Games
Emma Whatman and Victoria Tedeschi
YouTube and Internet Video
Brittany Warman
