{"product_id":"fairy-tales-transformed-twenty-first-century-adaptations-and-the-politics-of-wonder-paperback-softback-9780814334874","title":"Fairy Tales Transformed?; Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder (Paperback \/ softback) 9780814334874","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFairy Tales Transformed?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTwenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCristina Bacchilega (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780814334874\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 November 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages, 65 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.6 x 14.9 x 1.7 cm, 0.58 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFairy-tale 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 \u003cem\u003eFairy Tales Transformed?: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder\u003c\/em\u003e, accomplished fairy-tale scholar Cristina Bacchilega traces what she terms a \"\"fairy-tale web\"\" of multivocal influences in modern adaptations, asking how tales have been changed by and for the early twenty-first 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 naturalised hierarchy of Euro-American literary fairy tale over folktale and other wonder genres.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBacchilega begins by assessing changes in contemporary understandings and adaptations of the Euro-American fairy tale since the 1970s, and introduces the fairy-tale 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 \u003cem\u003eEnchanted\u003c\/em\u003e, Guillermo del Toro's \u003cem\u003ePan's Labyrinth\u003c\/em\u003e, and Catherine Breillat's \u003cem\u003eBluebeard\u003c\/em\u003e to literary adaptations like Nalo Hopkinson's \u003cem\u003eSkin Folk\u003c\/em\u003e, Emma Donoghue's \u003cem\u003eKissing the Witch\u003c\/em\u003e, and Bill Willingham's popular comics series, \u003cem\u003eFables\u003c\/em\u003e. She looks at the fairy-tale 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Arabian Nights\u003c\/em\u003e as \"\"media text\"\" in post-9\/11 globalised culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBacchilega's epilogue invites scholars to intensify their attention to multimedia fairy-tale traditions and the relationship of folk and fairy tales with other cultures' wonder genres. Scholars of fairy-tale studies will enjoy Bacchilega's significant new study of contemporary adaptations.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wayne State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523400397080,"sku":"9780814334874","price":22.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/fairy-tales-transformed-twenty-first-century-adaptations-and-the-politics-of-wonder-paperback-softback-9780814334874","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}