The enchanted screen : the unknown history of fairy-tale films

The enchanted screen : the unknown history of fairy-tale films / Jack Zipes.

With this book, Jack Zipes not only looks at the extensive, illustrious life of fairy tales and cinema, but he also reminds us that, decades before Walt Disney made his mark on the genre, fairy tales were central to the birth of cinema as a medium, as they offered cheap, copyright-free material that...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zipes, Jack, 1937-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2011.
Subjects:
Fairy tales in motion pictures.
Fairy tales > Film adaptations.
Table of Contents:
  • Filmic adaptation and appropriation of the fairy tale
  • De-Disneyfying Disney : notes on the development of the fairy-tale film
  • Georges Méliès : pioneer of the fairy-tale film and the art of the ridiculous
  • Animated fairy-tale cartoons : celebrating the carnival art of the ridiculous
  • Animated feature fairy-tale films
  • Cracking the magic mirror : re-presentations of Snow White
  • The trials and tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood revisited and reviewed
  • Bluebeard's original sin and the rise of serial killing, mass murder, and fascism
  • The triumph of the underdog : Cinderella's legacy
  • Abusing and abandoning children : "Hansel and Gretel," "Tom Thumb," "The Pied Piper," "Donkey-skin," and "The juniper tree"
  • Choosing the right mate : why beasts and frogs make for ideal husbands
  • Andersen's cinematic legacy : trivialization and innovation
  • Adapting fairy-tale novels
  • Between slave language and utopian optimism : neglected fairy-tale films of Central and Eastern Europe
  • Fairy-tale films in dark times : breaking molds, seeing the world anew.

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