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Book/Printed Material Fairy tale films : visions of ambiguity

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Title

  • Fairy tale films : visions of ambiguity

Names

  • Greenhill, Pauline.
  • Matrix, Sidney Eve.

Created / Published

  • Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2010.

Contents

  • Foreword: Grounding the spell : the fairy tale film and transformation / Jack Zipes -- Introduction: Envisioning ambiguity : fairy tale films / Pauline Greenhill and Sidney Eve Matrix -- Mixing it up : generic complexity and gender ideology in early twenty-first century fairy tale films / Cristina Bacchilega and John Rieder -- Building the perfect product : the commodification of childhood in contemporary fairy tale film / Naarah Sawers -- The parallelism of the fantastic and the real : Guillermo del Toro's Pan's labyrinth/El Laberinto del fauno and neomagical realism / Tracie D. Lukasiewicz -- Fitting the glass slipper : a comparative study of the princess's role in the Harry Potter novels and films / Ming-Hsun Lin -- The shoe still fits : Ever after and the pursuit of a feminist Cinderella / Christy Williams -- Mourning mothers and seeing siblings : feminism and place in The juniper tree / Pauline Greenhill and Anne Brydon -- Disney's Enchanted : patriarchal backlash and nostalgia in a fairy tale film / Linda Pershing with Lisa Gablehouse -- Fairy tale film in the classroom : feminist cultural pedagogy, Angela Carter, and Neil Jordan's The company of wolves / Kim Snowden -- A secret midnight ball and a magic cloak of invisibility : the cinematic folklore of Stanley Kubrick's Eyes wide shut / Sidney Eve Matrix -- Tim Burton and the idea of fairy tales / Brian Ray.

Headings

  • -  Fairy tales in motion pictures
  • -  Fairy tales--Film adaptations

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-238), filmography (pages 239-243), and index.
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (xiii, 263 pages)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PN1995.9.F34

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020715471

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  • Unrestricted online access

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Chicago citation style:

Greenhill, Pauline, and Sidney Eve Matrix. Fairy Tale Films: Visions of Ambiguity. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2010. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020715471/.

APA citation style:

Greenhill, P. & Matrix, S. E. (2010) Fairy Tale Films: Visions of Ambiguity. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020715471/.

MLA citation style:

Greenhill, Pauline, and Sidney Eve Matrix. Fairy Tale Films: Visions of Ambiguity. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2010. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2020715471/>.