Channeling wonder : fairy tales on television /
Television has long been a familiar vehicle for fairy tales and is, in some ways, an ideal medium for the genre. Both more mundane and more wondrous than cinema, TV magically captures sounds and images that float through the air to bring them into homes, schools, and workplaces. Even apparently real...
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Detroit, MI :
Wayne State University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Series in fairy-tale studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Channeling wonder : fairy tales, television, and intermediality / Pauline Greenhill and Jill Terry Rudy
- Part I: For and about kids and adults. Who's got the power? : Super Why!, viewer agency, and traditional narrative / Ian Brodie and Jodi McDavid ; Merlin as initiation tale : a contemporary fairy-tale manual for adolescent relationships / Emma Nelson and Ashley Walton ; Lost in the woods : adapting "Hansel and Gretel" for television / Don Tresca ; Things Jim Henson showed us : intermediality and the artistic making of Jim Henson's The storyteller / Jill Terry Rudy
- Part II: Masculinities and/or femininities. Things Walt Disney didn't tell us (but at which Rodgers and Hammerstein at least hinted) : the 1965 made-for-TV musical of Cinderella / Patricia Sawin ; "Appearance does not make the man" : masculinities in Japanese television retellings of "Cinderella" / Christie Barber ; Molding messages : analyzing the reworking of "Sleeping Beauty" in Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics and Dollhouse / Jeana Jorgensen and Brittany Warman ; The power to revolutionize the world, or absolute gender apocalypse? : queering the new fairy-tale feminine in Revolutionary Girl Utena / Kristian Lezubski
- Part III: Beastly humans. Criminal beasts and swan girls : the Red Riding trilogy and Little Red Riding Hood on television / Pauline Greenhill and Steven Kohm ; New fairy tales are old again : Grimm and the Brothers Grimm / Kristiana Willsey ; A dark story retold : adaptation, representation, and design in Snow White : a tale of terror / Andrea Wright ; Judith or Salome? Holofernes or John the Baptist? Catherine Breillat's rescripting of Charles Perrault's "Bluebeard" / Shuli Barzilai
- Part IV: Fairy tales are real! Reality TV, fairy-tale reality, commerce, and discourse. Ugly stepsisters and unkind girls : reality TV's repurposed fairy tales / Linda J. Lee ; Getting real with fairy tales : magic realism in Grimm and Once Upon a Time / Claudia Schwabe ; Happily never after : the commodification and critique of fairy tale in ABC's Once Upon a Time / Rebecca Hay and Christa Baxter ; The fairy tale and the commercial in Carosello and Fractured Fairy Tales / Christina Bacchilega and John Rieder
- Part V: Fairy-tale teleography. A critical introduction ot the fairy tale teleography / Kendra Magus-Johnston.
