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.
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Cover 1
Title 4
Copyright 5
CONTENTS 6
List of Figures 12
Introduction and Acknowledgments 14
PART I BASIC CONCEPTS 18
1 Overview of Basic Concepts (Folklore, Fairy Tale, Culture, and Media) 20
2 Definition and History of Fairy Tales 28
3 Constructing Fairy-Tale Media Forms (Texts, Textures, Contexts) 37
PART II ANALYTICAL APPROACHES 46
4 Formalism 48
5 Psychology 57
6 Marxism 64
7 Performance 73
8 Feminism 82
9 Postmodernism 91
10 Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Decolonization 100
PART III ISSUES : POLITICAL AND IDENTITY ISSUES 108
11 Activism (Folktales and Social Justice: When Marvelous Tales From the Oral Tradition Help Rethink and Stir the Present From the Margins) 110
12 Disability 121
13 Gender 130
14 Indigeneity ( E Ho‘okikoho‘e iā Pe‘ape‘amakawalu [Digitizing the Eight-Eyed Bat]: Indigenous Wonder Tales, Culture, and Media) 139
15 Orientalism (Excavation and Representation: Two Orientalist Modes in Fairy Tales) 150
Thematic Issues Raised by Fairy-Tale Media 160
16 Adaptation and the Fairy-Tale Web 162
17 Advertising 171
18 Convergence Culture (Media Convergence, Convergence Culture, and Communicative Capitalism) 178
19 Crime/Justice 188
20 Disney Corporation 195
21 Hybridity 205
22 Intellectual Property 213
23 Pornography 222
24 Storyworlds/Narratology 230
Issues of Intersection With Other Study Areas 240
25 Animal Studies 242
26 Children’s and Young Adult (YA) Literature 252
27 Fandom/Fan Cultures 262
28 Fat Studies (“Where Everything Round Is Good”: Exploring and Reimagining Fatness in Fairy-Tale Media) 269
29 Language 280
30 Oral Tradition 289
31 Pedagogy 298
32 Sexualities/Queer and Trans Studies 307
33 Translation (Written Forms) 316
PART IV COMMUNICATIVE MEDIA 326
34 Print 328
35 Pictorial (“Such Strange Transformations”: Burne-Jones’s Cinderella and Domestic Technologies) 337
36 Material Culture (Fairy-Tale Things: Studying Fairy Tales From a Material Culture Perspective) 345
37 Theater 354
38 Photographic 365
39 Cinematic 374
40 Broadcast (Radio and Television) 384
41 Digital (“Blood and Glitter”: Fairy Tales as Text, Texture, and Context in Digital Media) 393
PART V EXPRESSIVE GENRES AND VENUES 406
42 Anime and Manga (“You Love Your Father, Don’t You?”: The Influence of Tale Type 510B on Japanese Manga/Anime) 408
43 Anthologies and Tale Collections 416
44 Autobiography 425
45 Blogs and Websites (Narrativizing the Daily “Once Upon a Time”: Re-Envisioning the Fairy-Tale Present With Fairy-Tale Blogs) 435
46 Chapbooks 443
47 Children’s Museums 452
48 Children’s Picture Books and Illustrations 460
49 Children’s Television 468
50 Cinema Science Fiction 477
51 Classical Music 483
52 Comics and Graphic Novels (Fairy-Tale Graphic Narrative) 491
53 Comic Cons (Fairy-Tale Culture and Comic Conventions: Perpetuating Storytelling Traditions) 500
54 Contemporary Art 509
55 Criticism 518
56 Fan Fiction 525
57 Fantasy 532
58 Food (Sugar-Coated Fairy Tales and the Contemporary Cultures of Consumption) 542
59 Horror 549
60 Mobile Apps 556
61 Music Videos and Pop Music 565
62 Musicals 573
63 Novels 582
64 Opera 589
65 Poetry (Fairy-Tale Poems: The Winding Path to Illo Tempore ) 597
66 Reality Television 607
67 Romance (The Transmedial Romance of “Beauty and the Beast”) 615
68 Storytelling (Fairy Tales in Contemporary American and European Storytelling Performance) 624
69 Traditional Song 633
70 Television Drama (Fairy Tales and American TV Drama) 642
71 Video Games 651
72 YouTube and Internet Video 659
List of Contributors 666
Index 672

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Routledge Companion to Fairy-Tale Cultures and Media

Ashgate Publishing Limited

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Gower Publishing Ltd

Routledge Ltd

Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions, Andover, 2018

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Routledge companions, New York, 2018

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