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

Author/creator Zipes, Jack, 1937-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, 2011.
Descriptionxii, 435 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [376]-387) and index.
Bibliography note"Filmography": p. [388]-425.
LCCN 2010042961
ISBN9780415990622 (hardback)
ISBN0415990629 (hardback)
ISBN9780415990615 (pbk.)
ISBN0415990610 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks PN1995.9.F34 Z57 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold