ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to understand how gender functions within the fairy tale across different media, specifically literary texts, film, comic books, and painting. It does so from the perspective of 1) the editorial and publication history of fairy tales and canon formation; 2) revisions of what have become the “classical” fairy tales (notably “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Cinderella,” “Snow White,” and “Sleeping Beauty”) in which the heroine often plays a passive role, but which do not represent the form in general; and 3) hybrid media forms (i.e., fairy tale and comic book; fairy tale and painting), which allow for intermedial explorations of the possibilities of gender.
