1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures
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.
Basic Concepts; Overview of Basic Concepts: Folklore, Fairy Tale, Culture, and Media; Definition and History of Fairy Tales; Constructing Fairy-Tale Media Forms: Texts, Textures, Contexts; Analytical Approaches; Formalism; Psychology; Marxism; Performance; Feminism; Postmodernism; Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Decolonization; Issues; Political and Identity Issues; Activism (Folktales and Social Justice: When Marvelous Tales from the Oral Tradition Help Rethink and Stir the Present from the Margins); Disability; Gender; Indigeneity (E Ho¿okikoho¿e ia Pe¿ape¿amakawalu [Digitizing the Eight-Eyed Bat]: Indigenous Wonder Tales, Culture, and Media); Orientalism (Excavation and Representation: Two Orientalist Modes in Fairy Tales); Thematic Issues; Adaptation and the Fairy-Tale Web; Advertising; Convergence Culture (Media Convergence, Convergence Culture, and Communicative Capitalism); Crime/Justice; Disney Corporation; Hybridity; Francisco Vaz da Silva; Intellectual Property; Pornography ; Storyworlds/Narratology; Intersectional Issue.
Biography
Pauline Greenhill is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg, Canada.
Jill Terry Rudy is Associate Professor of English, Brigham Young University, USA.
Naomi Hamer is Assistant Professor in English at Ryerson University, Canada.
Lauren Bosc is a Research Coordinator and Managing Editor for Jeunesse at the University of Winnipeg, Canada.
"[...] the interdisciplinary mode of this text offers a fascinating and needed intervention in the field, relocating criticism of fairy tales from historically and nationally based analysis of when and where fairy tales operate and in what contexts, to how fairy tales travel across cultures and media and how this impacts the perceived function of the tales. To decouple fairy tales from their assumed spaces and relocate them within a media culture that is constantly transforming and recreating itself is a step long needed in the field of fairy-tale studies." - Michelle Anya Anjirbag, in Jeunesse, Vol 11 No 1 (2019)
