Fairy Tales Transformed?: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder

302 Pages·2013·68.444 MB·English

by  Cristina Bacchilega

fairy tales transformed?
series in fairy-tale studies
General Editor
Donald Haase, Wayne State University
Advisory Editors
Cristina Bacchilega, University of Hawai‘i, Ma¯noa
Stephen Benson, University of East Anglia
Nancy L. Canepa, Dartmouth College
Anne E. Duggan, Wayne State University
Pauline Greenhill, University of Winnipeg
Christine A. Jones, University of Utah
Janet Langlois, Wayne State University
Ulrich Marzolph, University of Göttingen
Carolina Fernández Rodríguez, University of Oviedo
Maria Tatar, Harvard University
Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota
A complete listing of the books in this series
can be found online at wsupress.wayne.edu
Fai RY TaLEs
TRANsformed?
Twenty-First-Century Adaptations
and the Politics of Wonder
Cristina BaCChilega
Wayne State University Press Detroit
© 2013 by Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan
48201. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be
reproduced without formal permission. Manufactured in the
United States of America.
ISBN: 978-0-8143-3487-4 (pbk.: alk paper)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2013941168
Published with the assistance of a fund established by
Thelma Gray James of Wayne State University
for the publication of folklore and English studies.
ISBN: 978-0-8143-3928-2 (ebook)
To the many from whom I continue to learn
and to John Rieder, compagno della mia vita

Contents
Preface ix
Introduction. The Fairy-Tale Web: Intertextual and
Multimedial Practices in Globalized Culture, a
Geopolitics of Inequality, and (Un)Predictable Links 1
1 Activist Responses: Adaptation, Remediation,
and Relocation 31
2 Double Exposures: Reading (in) Fairy-Tale Films 73
3 Fairy-Tale Remix in Film: Genres,
Histories, and Economies 109
4 Resituating The Arabian Nights: Challenges
and Promises of Translation 143
Epilogue: The Politics of Wonder 189
Notes 203
Works Cited 245
Filmography 271
Index 275
Acknowledgments 287