ABSTRACT
Looking at gender and the sexual politics of music, given the radical effect of feminist analysis on fairy-tale scholarship and inspired by feminist musicologist Susan McClary, we look at how fairy tales’ mediation in audiovisual forms genders and sometimes also queers their presentation. We explore and reflect on transmediated classical music (tellings across platforms and formats) used in fairy-tale films disseminated via cinema theater, television, and home video. When traditional tales and music combine on screen, they create complex associations that can give new meaning to the traditional stories that continue to haunt and inspire us.
