• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Fairy-Tale TV

Fairy-Tale TV

Paperback

Series: Routledge Television Guidebooks

Literary CriticismTelevision

ISBN10: 036734579X
ISBN13: 9780367345792
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 3 2020
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.08 Depth: 7.75
Language: English

This concise and accessible critical introduction examines the world of popular fairy-tale television, tracing how fairy tales and their social and cultural implications manifest within series, television events, anthologies, and episodes, and as freestanding motifs.

Providing a model of televisual analysis, Rudy and Greenhill emphasize that fairy-tale longevity in general, and particularly on TV, results from malleability--morphing from extremely complex narratives to the simple quotation of a name (like Cinderella) or phrase (like happily ever after)--as well as its perennial value as a form that is good to think with. The global reach and popularity of fairy tales is reflected in the book's selection of diverse examples from genres such as political, lifestyle, reality, and science fiction TV.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

Literary Criticism