Title: Film and fairy tales : the birth of modern fantasy /
Authors: Moen, Kristian
Publisher: I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the U.S. and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillab,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Fairy tales in motion pictures.; Fairy tales Social aspects.; Fairy tales Film adaptations
Abstract: Far from helping people to escape harsh realities to a realm of pure fantasy, fairy tales and the films that rooted themselves in their tropes and traditions played an integral role in formulating and expressing the anxieties of modernism as well as its potential for radical, magical transformation. In "Film and fairy tales", Kristian Moen examines the role played by fairy tales in shaping cinema, its culture, and its discourse during its most formative years.
Contents: "A dream we make wide awake": the nineteenth-century féerie -- A cinema of transformations: the film féerie and Georges Méliès -- Fairy-tale aesthetics: early film theory and The blue bird (1918) -- Mary Pickford and the fantasies of stardom -- Sites of enchantment and The thief of Bagdad (1924) -- Delimiting fairy tales: Snow White and the seven dwarfs (1937) -- Afterword: Mutability lessons.