Re-orienting the fairy tale : contemporary adaptations across cultures / edited by Mayako Murai and Luciana Cardi.

Other author Murai, Mayako, editor.
Other author Cardi, Luciana, editor.
Format Electronic
PublicationDetroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2020]
Description1 online resource.
Supplemental ContentProQuest Ebook Central
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SeriesSeries in fairy-tale studies
Series in fairy-tale studies. ^A691646
Contents Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Disorienting Cultural Assumptions -- 1. Fairy Tales in Site: Wonders of Disorientation, Challenges of Re-Orientation -- 2. Mo'olelo Kamaha'o 2.0: The Art and Politics of the Modern Hawaiian Wonder Tale -- 3. Re-Orienting China and America: Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China and Its TV Adaptation -- 4. Monstrous Marionette: The Tale of a Japanese Doll by Angela Carter -- Part II. Exploring New Uses -- 5. Japanese Heroine Tales and the Significance of Storytelling in Contemporary Society
Contents 6. Who's Afraid of Derrida & Co.? Modern Theory Meets Three Little Pigs in the Classroom -- 7. Adults Reclaiming Fairy Tales through Cinema: Popular Fairy-Tale Movie Adaptations from the Past Decade -- 8. Trespassing the Boundaries of Fairy Tales: Pablo Berger's Silent Film Snow White -- Part III. Promoting Alternative Ethics and Aesthetics -- 9. Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale, Revising Age? -- 10. Re-Orienting Fairy-Tale Childhood: Child Protagonists as Critical Signifiers of Fairy-Tale Tropes in Transnational Contemporary Cinema
Contents 11. Alice on the Edge: Girls' Culture and "Western" Fairy Tales in Japan -- 12. Magical Bird Maidens: Reconsidering Romantic Fairy Tales in Japanese Popular Culture -- 13. When Princess(es) Will Sing: Girls Rock and Alternative Queer Interpretation -- 14. The Plantation, the Garden, and the Forest: Biocultural Borderlands in Angela Carter's "Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest" -- Contributors -- Index
Abstract New approaches to decenter Eurocentric perspectives in fairy tales and lift up storytelling cultures across the globe.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionOnline resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 26, 2020).
Issued in other formPrint version: Murai, Mayako. Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale : Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures. OnixTransformation. OnixModel. CityOfPublication : Wayne State University Press, ©2020
Genre/formElectronic books.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
ISBN0814345379 (electronic book)
ISBN9780814345375 (electronic bk.)

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