Film and Fairy Tales

The Birth of Modern Fantasy

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by Kristian Moen

Type

Essays

Subject

Genre > Fantasy

Keywords

fantasy, fairy tales, history of cinema

Publishing date

2013

Publisher

I.B.Tauris

Collection

International Library of the Moving Image

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 304 pages
5 ¾ x 9 ¾ inches (14.5 x 24.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-78076-251-7

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Book Presentation:
Far from a realm of pure fantasy helping people to escape harsh realities, fairy tales and the films that rooted themselves in their tropes and traditions played an integral role in formulating and expressing the anxieties of modernity as well as its potential for radical, magical transformation.
In Film and Fairy Tales, Kristian Moen examines the role played by fairy tales in shaping cinema, its culture, and its discourse during its most formative years. Through analysis of early film theorists and detailed case studies of films of Méliès, Tourneur and Walt Disney, Moen shows how the visual tropes and theoretical vocabulary of the fairy tale negotiated different experiences of modernity - the giddy adventures of social mobility, consumer culture and identity transformation, the threats and anxieties of cultural change, impermanence and mutability. From the nineteenth century 'fairy play' to the self-aestheticising fantasies of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Moen shows how cinema made fairy tales modern - and fairy tales helped make cinema what it is today.

About the Author:
Kristian Moen is a Lecturer in Screen Studies in the Department of Drama: Theatre, Film, Television at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published and presented on topics including nineteenth-century visual culture, cinema and modernity, and the relationship between cinema and fantasy.

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