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Channeling Wonder : Fairy Tales on Television.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Series in Fairy-Tale StudiesPublisher: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (464 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780814339237
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Channeling WonderDDC classification:
  • 791.4561
LOC classification:
  • PN1992.8.D48 -- .C436 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Channeling Wonder: Fairy Tales, Television, and Intermediality -- PART I: FOR AND ABOUT KIDS AND ADULTS -- 1. Who's Got the Power?: Super Why!, Viewer Agency, and Traditional Narrative -- 2. Merlin as Initiation Tale: A Contemporary Fairy-Tale Manual for Adolescent Relationships -- 3. Lost in the Woods: Adapting "Hansel and Gretel" for Television -- 4. Things Jim Henson Showed Us: Intermediality and the Artistic Making of Jim Henson's The StoryTeller -- PART II: MASCULINITIES AND/OR FEMININITIES -- 5. Things Walt Disney Didn't Tell Us (But at Which Rodgers and Hammerstein at Least Hinted): The 1965 Made-for-TV Musical of Cinderella -- 6. "Appearance does not make the man": Masculinities in Japanese Television Retellings of "Cinderella" -- 7. Molding Messages: Analyzing the Reworking of "Sleeping Beauty" in Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics and Dollhouse -- 8. The Power to Revolutionize the World, or Absolute Gender Apocalypse?: Queering the New Fairy-Tale Feminine in Revolutionary Girl Utena -- PART III: BEASTLY HUMANS -- 9. Criminal Beasts and Swan Girls: The Red Riding Trilogy and Little Red Riding Hood on Television -- 10. New Fairy Tales Are Old Again: Grimm and the Brothers Grimm -- 11. A Dark Story Retold: Adaptation, Representation, and Design in Snow White: A Tale of Terror -- 12. Judith or Salome? Holofernes or John the Baptist? Catherine Breillat's Rescripting of Charles Perrault's "Bluebeard" -- PART IV: FAIRY TALES ARE REAL! REALITY TV, FAIRY-TALE REALITY, COMMERCE, AND DISCOURSE -- 13. Ugly Stepsisters and Unkind Girls: Reality TV's Repurposed Fairy Tales -- 14. Getting Real with Fairy Tales: Magic Realism in Grimm and Once Upon a Time -- 15. Happily Never After: The Commodification and Critique of Fairy Tale in ABC's Once Upon a Time.
16. The Fairy Tale and the Commercial in Carosello and Fractured Fairy Tales -- PART V: FAIRY-TALE TELEOGRAPHY -- 17. A Critical Introduction to the Fairy-Tale Teleography -- Fairy-Tale Teleography -- Individual Episodes -- TV Specials, Live Performances -- TV Series, Miniseries, and Educational TV Series -- Made-for-TV Movies -- Other Television References -- Filmography -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Channeling Wonder: Fairy Tales, Television, and Intermediality -- PART I: FOR AND ABOUT KIDS AND ADULTS -- 1. Who's Got the Power?: Super Why!, Viewer Agency, and Traditional Narrative -- 2. Merlin as Initiation Tale: A Contemporary Fairy-Tale Manual for Adolescent Relationships -- 3. Lost in the Woods: Adapting "Hansel and Gretel" for Television -- 4. Things Jim Henson Showed Us: Intermediality and the Artistic Making of Jim Henson's The StoryTeller -- PART II: MASCULINITIES AND/OR FEMININITIES -- 5. Things Walt Disney Didn't Tell Us (But at Which Rodgers and Hammerstein at Least Hinted): The 1965 Made-for-TV Musical of Cinderella -- 6. "Appearance does not make the man": Masculinities in Japanese Television Retellings of "Cinderella" -- 7. Molding Messages: Analyzing the Reworking of "Sleeping Beauty" in Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics and Dollhouse -- 8. The Power to Revolutionize the World, or Absolute Gender Apocalypse?: Queering the New Fairy-Tale Feminine in Revolutionary Girl Utena -- PART III: BEASTLY HUMANS -- 9. Criminal Beasts and Swan Girls: The Red Riding Trilogy and Little Red Riding Hood on Television -- 10. New Fairy Tales Are Old Again: Grimm and the Brothers Grimm -- 11. A Dark Story Retold: Adaptation, Representation, and Design in Snow White: A Tale of Terror -- 12. Judith or Salome? Holofernes or John the Baptist? Catherine Breillat's Rescripting of Charles Perrault's "Bluebeard" -- PART IV: FAIRY TALES ARE REAL! REALITY TV, FAIRY-TALE REALITY, COMMERCE, AND DISCOURSE -- 13. Ugly Stepsisters and Unkind Girls: Reality TV's Repurposed Fairy Tales -- 14. Getting Real with Fairy Tales: Magic Realism in Grimm and Once Upon a Time -- 15. Happily Never After: The Commodification and Critique of Fairy Tale in ABC's Once Upon a Time.

16. The Fairy Tale and the Commercial in Carosello and Fractured Fairy Tales -- PART V: FAIRY-TALE TELEOGRAPHY -- 17. A Critical Introduction to the Fairy-Tale Teleography -- Fairy-Tale Teleography -- Individual Episodes -- TV Specials, Live Performances -- TV Series, Miniseries, and Educational TV Series -- Made-for-TV Movies -- Other Television References -- Filmography -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index.

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