The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-tale Films

Book Cover
Title
Copyright
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Prologue
I
	1 Filmic Adaptation and Appropriation of the Fairy Tale
	2 De-Disneyfying Disney: Notes on the Development of the Fairy-Tale Film
	3 Georges Méliès: Pioneer of the Fairy-Tale Film and the Art of the Ridiculous
	4 Animated Fairy-Tale Cartoons: Celebrating the Carnival Art of the Ridiculous
	5 Animated Feature Fairy-Tale Films
II
	6 Cracking the Magic Mirror: Representations of Snow White
	7 The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood Revisited and Reviewed
	8 Bluebeard’s Original Sin and the Rise of Serial Killing, Mass Murder, and Fascism
	9 The Triumph of the Underdog: Cinderella’s Legacy
	10 Abusing and Abandoning Children: “Hansel and Gretel,” “Tom Thumb,” “The Pied Piper,” “Donkey-Skin,” and “The Juniper Tree”
	11 Choosing the Right Mate: Why Beasts and Frogs Make for Ideal Husbands
	12 Andersen’s Cinematic Legacy: Trivialization and Innovation
III
	13 Adapting Fairy-Tale Novels
	14 Between Slave Language and Utopian Optimism: Neglected Fairy-Tale Films of Central and Eastern Europe
	15 Fairy-Tale Films in Dark Times: Breaking Molds, Seeing the World Anew
Endnotes
Bibliography
Filmography
Index