ABSTRACT

From Cinderella to comic con to colonialism and more, this companion provides readers with a comprehensive and current guide to the fantastic, uncanny, and wonderful worlds of the fairy tale across media and cultures. It offers a clear, detailed, and expansive overview of contemporary themes and issues throughout the intersections of the fields of fairy-tale studies, media studies, and cultural studies, addressing, among others, issues of reception, audience cultures, ideology, remediation, and adaptation. Examples and case studies are drawn from a wide range of pertinent disciplines and settings, providing thorough, accessible treatment of central topics and specific media from around the globe.

part I|28 pages

Basic Concepts

chapter 1|8 pages

Overview of Basic Concepts

Folklore, Fairy Tale, Culture, and Media

chapter 3|9 pages

Constructing Fairy-Tale Media Forms

Texts, Textures, Contexts

part II|62 pages

Analytical Approaches

chapter 4|9 pages

Formalism

chapter 5|7 pages

Psychology

chapter 6|9 pages

Marxism

chapter 7|9 pages

Performance

chapter 8|9 pages

Feminism

chapter 9|9 pages

Postmodernism

part III|218 pages

Issues

chapter 11|11 pages

Activism

Folktales and Social Justice: When Marvelous Tales From the Oral Tradition Help Rethink and Stir the Present From the Margins

chapter 12|9 pages

Disability

chapter 13|9 pages

Gender

chapter 14|11 pages

Indigeneity

E Ho‘okikoho‘e iā Pe‘ape‘amakawalu (Digitizing the Eight-Eyed Bat): Indigenous Wonder Tales, Culture, and Media

chapter 15|10 pages

Orientalism

Excavation and Representation: Two Orientalist Modes in Fairy Tales

part |79 pages

Thematic Issues Raised by Fairy-Tale Media

chapter 17|7 pages

Advertising

chapter 18|10 pages

Convergence Culture

Media Convergence, Convergence Culture, and Communicative Capitalism

chapter 19|7 pages

Crime/Justice

chapter 20|10 pages

Disney Corporation

chapter 21|8 pages

Hybridity

chapter 22|9 pages

Intellectual Property

chapter 23|8 pages

Pornography

chapter 24|9 pages

Storyworlds/Narratology

part |86 pages

Issues of Intersection with other Study Areas

chapter 25|10 pages

Animal Studies

chapter 27|7 pages

Fandom/Fan Cultures

chapter 28|11 pages

Fat Studies

“Where Everything Round Is Good”: Exploring and Reimagining Fatness in Fairy-Tale Media

chapter 29|9 pages

Language

chapter 30|9 pages

Oral Tradition

chapter 31|9 pages

Pedagogy

chapter 33|10 pages

Translation

Written Forms

part IV|80 pages

Communicative Media

chapter 34|9 pages

Print

chapter 35|8 pages

Pictorial

“Such Strange Transformations”: Burne-Jones’s Cinderella and Domestic Technologies

chapter 36|9 pages

Material Culture

Fairy-Tale Things: Studying Fairy Tales From a Material Culture Perspective

chapter 37|11 pages

Theater

chapter 38|9 pages

Photographic

chapter 39|10 pages

Cinematic

chapter 40|9 pages

Broadcast

Radio and Television

chapter 41|13 pages

Digital

“Blood and Glitter”: Fairy Tales as Text, Texture, and Context in Digital Media

part V|260 pages

Expressive Genres and Venues

chapter 42|8 pages

Anime and Manga

The Influence of Tale Type 510B on Japanese Manga/Anime

chapter 43|9 pages

Anthologies and Tale Collections

chapter 45|8 pages

Blogs and Websites

Narrativizing the Daily “Once Upon a Time”: Re-Envisioning the Fairy-Tale Present With Fairy-Tale Blogs

chapter 46|9 pages

Chapbooks

chapter 47|8 pages

Children’s Museums

chapter 49|9 pages

Children’s Television

chapter 50|6 pages

Cinema Science Fiction

chapter 51|8 pages

Classical Music

chapter 52|9 pages

Comics and Graphic Novels

Fairy-Tale Graphic Narrative

chapter 53|9 pages

Comic Cons

Fairy-Tale Culture and Comic Conventions: Perpetuating Storytelling Traditions

chapter 54|9 pages

Contemporary Art

chapter 55|7 pages

Criticism

chapter 56|7 pages

Fan Fiction

chapter 57|10 pages

Fantasy

chapter 58|7 pages

Food

Sugar-Coated Fairy Tales and the Contemporary Cultures of Consumption

chapter 59|7 pages

Horror

chapter 60|9 pages

Mobile Apps

chapter 62|9 pages

Musicals

chapter 63|7 pages

Novels

chapter 64|8 pages

Opera

chapter 65|10 pages

Poetry

Fairy-Tale Poems: The Winding Path to Illo Tempore

chapter 66|8 pages

Reality Television

chapter 67|9 pages

Romance

The Transmedial Romance of “Beauty and the Beast”

chapter 68|9 pages

Storytelling

Fairy Tales in Contemporary American and European Storytelling Performance

chapter 69|9 pages

Traditional Song

chapter 70|9 pages

Television Drama

Fairy Tales and American TV Drama

chapter 71|8 pages

Video Games

chapter 72|7 pages

Youtube and Internet Video