Craving Supernatural Creatures : German Fairy-Tale Figures in American Pop Culture.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (345 pages)
- Series in Fairy-Tale Studies .
- Series in Fairy-Tale Studies .
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Reimagining Uncanny Fairy-Tale Creatures: Automatons, Golems, and Doppelgangers -- Chapter 2. Evil Queens and Witches: Mischievous Villains or Misunderstood Victims? -- Chapter 3. Taming the Monstrous Other: Representations of the Rehabilitated Big Bad Beast in American Media -- Chapter 4. Dwarfs, Diversity, and Deformation: From Fairy-Tale Imps to Rumpelstiltskin Reloaded -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Analyzes the portrayal of German fairy-tale figures in contemporary North American media adaptations.