Fairy tales transformed?: twenty-first-century adaptations and the politics of wonder

"Fairy-tale adaptations are ubiquitous in modern popular culture, but readers and scholars alike may take for granted the many voices and traditions folded into today's tales. In Fairy Tales Transformed?: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder, accomplished fairy-tale...

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Main Author: Bacchilega, Cristina 1955- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Detroit Wayne State University Press 2013
Series:Series in fairy-tale studies
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Summary:"Fairy-tale adaptations are ubiquitous in modern popular culture, but readers and scholars alike may take for granted the many voices and traditions folded into today's tales. In Fairy Tales Transformed?: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder, accomplished fairy-tale scholar Cristina Bacchilega traces what she terms a "fairy-tale web" of multivocal influences in modern adaptations, asking how tales have been changed by and for the early twenty-first century. Dealing mainly with literary and cinematic adaptations for adults and young adults, Bacchilega investigates the linked and yet divergent social projects these fairy tales imagine, their participation and competition in multiple genre and media systems, and their relation to a politics of wonder that contests a naturalized hierarchy of Euro-American literary fairy tale over folktale and other wonder genres." ... Publisher website
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-269), filmography (pages 271-273) and index
Physical Description:x, 290 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm
ISBN:9780814334874
0814334873

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