Modern Film Adaptations of Fairy Tales: An Examination of Four 2012 Versions of Snow White

2021 ◽  
pp. 373-386
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Film Adaptations ◽  
Snow White

scholarly journals GENDER STEREOTYPES PRESENTED IN POPULAR CHILDREN’S FAIRY TALES

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-170
Author(s):  
JOANNA PAWŁOWSKA
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Sleeping Beauty ◽  
Film Adaptations ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Snow White ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Gender Portrayals

The article aims to contribute to the discussion on gender stereotypes in stories for children by mapping gender stereotypes in traditional fairy tales. The article presents fairy tales' value in children’s education and indicates potential dangers in traditional cultural transmissions, paying special attention to gender stereotypes. A selection of texts was analyzed in terms of their stereotypical gender portrayals. The methodological framework represents an interpretative paradigm in social sciences, using a qualitative method of analysis. The texts were purposely selected, and the most popular fairy tales were chosen: Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, which despite the passing of time, are still popular, widely read and also used in film adaptations. It was shown that in all analyzed fairy tales, there was a stereotypical division of roles according to gender. The article also presents possible ways to counteract gender stereotypes. A limitation of the article is that the analysis is limited to three fairy tales only, but the overarching value raises awareness of gender stereotypes in fairy tales for children.

scholarly journals Consuming and Being Consumed

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-57
Author(s):  
Carla Scarano D'Antonio
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Titus Andronicus ◽  
Snow White ◽  
The World ◽  
Romance Plot

The article explores how Margaret Atwood demystifies the romance plot in her first novel The Edible Woman by exposing the world of consumerism as artificial and threatening to the point of cannibalism. This is revealed through references to fairy tales and myths with cannibalistic undertones such as ‘Snow White’, ‘The Robber Bridegroom’ and ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’. It is also highlighted in the reference to the theme of the eaten heart in Boccaccio’s Decameron and to Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. In the tempting world of advertisements and commercials, women are objectified and traded and their roles are diminished. In this realm, Marian, the protagonist, is in search of her identity but first tries to ‘adjust’ to society’s artificial and delusional narrative. The advertisements dictate a behaviour, objectify her body and force her to comply with preformed roles. She consciously tries to defend herself from this consumerist mentality by allowing her body to ‘speak’ for her. Her body starts to refuse food and she feels it is alive, until it cuts itself off. Therefore, showing how she refuses to ‘adjust’ to the consumerist society. The narrative points out the inherent cannibalistic quality of the consumerist society in which human beings are commodities and their roles are dictated by commercials and the ferocious rules of profit.

scholarly journals Fairy Tale Femininities: A Discourse Analysis of Snow White Films 1916-2012

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Lisbet Rosa Dam
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Young Female ◽  
The Body ◽  
Snow White ◽  
Femininity And Masculinity ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Feminist Poststructuralist ◽  
Traditional Femininity

<p>Fairy tales are enduring cultural texts that have enjoyed wide appeal and the continuing popularity of the fairy tale can be seen in the recent proliferation of media employing fairy tale narratives. Fairy tales provide a site of meaning about femininity and masculinity and examining them over time identifies versions of gender that are prized or denigrated within specific social, historical moments. This project was interested in the continuities and divergences in these gendered discourses across time. Although there has been considerable academic interest in fairy tales and gender, few studies have approached the topic from a genealogical perspective. This research extends the current literature through a genealogical analysis of five Snow White films from 1916 to 2012 in addition to incorporating an analysis in relation to a contemporary postfeminist, neoliberal social climate. The research employed a feminist poststructuralist framework and utilised thematic and genealogical Foucauldian discourse analysis to analyse the data. Discursive analyses found enduring discourses of traditional femininity across the films which centrally organised around a binary construction of femininity as ‘good’ or ‘bad.’ A moral discourse worked to construct ‘good’ femininity as prized and bad femininity as punished. Alongside persistent discourses of femininity, however, a newer postfeminist femininity was evident in recent versions of the fairy tale. Consistent with a postfeminist, neoliberal discourse that highlights the importance of the body, analyses found an increased emphasis on beauty and the vast effort required to maintain it. Another postfeminist shift in the tale was the invoking of a girl power discourse to construct Snow as a competent fighter and leader. However, the complex entanglement of discourses of femininity in contemporary society is highlighted by the co-existence of these newer versions of femininity with traditional goals such as achieving a ‘happily ever after.’ From the perspective of possibilities for subjectivity, these shifts in representation appear to offer a young female audience more empowered possibilities of femininity but such power is simultaneously constrained by a complex amalgamation with traditional ‘niceness’ and beauty.</p>

4. Potato soup

2018 ◽  
pp. 56-74
Author(s):  
Marina Warner
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Snow White ◽  
The World ◽  
The Fantastic ◽  
Historical Origins

Princes and queens, palaces and castles dominate the foreground of a fairy tale, but through the gold and glitter, the depth of the scene is filled with vivid and familiar circumstances, as the fantastic faculties engage with the world of experience. ‘Potato soup: true stories/real life’ explains that the genre’s themes are real-life themes and the passions real-life passions. The situations in fairy tales also capture deep terrors of occurrences common and, mercifully, uncommon. Despite the historical origins behind stories such as Bluebeard and Snow White, fairy tales, in general, dramatize ordinary circumstances. They are messages of hope arising from desperate yet ordinary situations.

Hypnotic Overdoses and Fairy Tales: Snow White and the Uses of Disenchantment

1987 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 326-334
Author(s):  
Xavier Pommereau ◽  
Jean Michel Delile ◽  
Emmanuelle Caule
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Snow White

Fairy Tales and after: From Snow White to E. B. White. Roger Sale

1979 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 493-494
Author(s):  
Francelia Butler
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Snow White
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