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"-- Provided by publisher 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