Film and fairy tales. The birth of modern fantasy

Film and fairy tales. The birth of modern fantasy

by Moen

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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.

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  • Full title :Film and fairy tales. The birth of modern fantasy. / Kristian Moen.

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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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):I.B. Tauris & Co
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2012.

The Physical Object

  • Description:304 pages

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781780762517, 1780762518
  • oclc:ocn772499409
  • LC Classification:PN1990-1997
  • Dewey Decimal:791

Table of 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.

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Subjects

Contes de fées -- Adaptations cinématog… Contes de fées au cinéma Fairy tales Fairy tales -- Film adaptations Fairy tales in motion pictures Film adaptations

Writers

Moen

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