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Fairy Tales Transformed?: TwentyFirstCentury Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder (The Donald Haase Series in FairyTale Stu,Used
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Fairytale adaptations are ubiquitous in modern popular culture, but readers and scholars alike may take for granted the many voices and traditions folded into today's tales. In Fairy Tales Transformed?: TwentyFirstCentury Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder, accomplished fairytale scholar Cristina Bacchilega traces what she terms a 'fairytale web' of multivocal influences in modern adaptations, asking how tales have been changed by and for the early twentyfirst century. Dealing mainly with literary and cinematic adaptations for adults and young adults, Bacchilega investigates the linked and yet divergent social projects these fairy tales imagine, their participation and competition in multiple genre and media systems, and their relation to a politics of wonder that contests a naturalized hierarchy of EuroAmerican literary fairy tale over folktale and other wonder genres.Bacchilega begins by assessing changes in contemporary understandings and adaptations of the EuroAmerican fairy tale since the 1970s, and introduces the fairytale web as a network of reading and writing practices with a long history shaped by forces of gender politics, capitalism, and colonialism. In the chapters that follow, Bacchilega considers a range of texts, from high profile films like Disney's Enchanted, Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, and Catherine Breillat's Bluebeard to literary adaptations like Nalo Hopkinson's Skin Folk, Emma Donoghue's Kissing the Witch, and Bill Willingham's popular comics series, Fables. She looks at the fairytale web from a number of approaches, including adaptation as 'activist response' in Chapter 1, as remediation within convergence culture in Chapter 2, and a space of genre mixing in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 connects adaptation with issues of translation and stereotyping to discuss mainstream North American adaptations of The Arabian Nights as 'media text' in post9/11 globalized culture.Bacchilega's epilogue invites scholars to intensify their attention to multimedia fairytale traditions and the relationship of folk and fairy tales with other cultures' wonder genres. Scholars of fairytale studies will enjoy Bacchilega's significant new study of contemporary adaptations.
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