Dancing the fairy tale: producing and performing the Sleeping beauty

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (02) ◽  
pp. 53-0692-53-0692
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Sleeping Beauty

The First Nutcracker, the Enchantment of International Relations, and the Franco-Russian Alliance

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-149
Author(s):  
Damien Mahiet
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Sleeping Beauty ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Revolutionary Era ◽  
History Of

Despite the lively scholarly debate on the place of The Sleeping Beauty (1890) in the political and cultural history of the Franco-Russian alliance in the 1890s, the representation of international relations in the first production of The Nutcracker (1892) has so far received little attention. This representation includes the well-known series of character dances in the second act of the ballet, but also the use of French fashion from the revolutionary era to costume the party guests, the mechanical dolls, the toy soldiers, and even Prince Nutcracker. The fairy-tale world offered a frame that not only promoted the absolutist aspirations of Alexander III's regime, but also solved the symbolic challenge of a problematic alliance between republican France and tsarist Russia. The same visual repertoire informed diplomatic life: four years after The Nutcracker, in 1896, the décor for the state visit of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna in France duplicated that of the fairy-tale world on stage.

scholarly journals Model baśni filmowej w złotym wieku wytwórni Walta Disneya (wraz z późniejszymi modyfikacjami)

Wielogłos ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 151-181
Author(s):  
Maciej Skowera
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Sleeping Beauty ◽  
Snow White ◽  
Animated Films ◽  
Cultural Texts ◽  
Model Film

[Model of a Film Fairy Tale in the Disney Golden Age (with Later Modifications)] The article attempts to determine the constitutive elements of a model film fairy tale in the so-called Disney Golden Age and to examine how it was used in later works, both these created by the studio and those by unrelated creators. After preliminary remarks, the author analyses three feature-length animated films: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Cinderella (1950), and Sleeping Beauty (1959). In these works, as he notes, one can notice a set of features that make up the classic Disney model of a film fairy tale. Next, the author discusses modifications applied to the pattern during the Disney Renaissance and Revival. Finally, he cites examples of cultural texts polemical to this paradigm which point to the cultural vitality and heterogeneity of the studio’s films.

scholarly journals Poetics of the Fairy Tale Princess: Products, Problems, & Possibilities / Poésie de la princesse des contes de fées : produits, problèmes et possibilités

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-32
Author(s):  
Courtney Lee Weida ◽  
Carlee Bradbury ◽  
Jaime Chris Weida
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Sleeping Beauty ◽  
Art Educator ◽  
Creative Interventions

Abstract: In the following paper, the authors analyze the prevalence of princess culture in the literature, film, and visual culture of young people. An art educator, art historian, and professor of English literature, the authors propose creative interventions through alternative resources and readings. Focusing on foundations of media studies and literature of Fairy-Tale Studies and girlhood studies, this interdisciplinary collaboration investigates complex creative predicaments of girlhood and princess media. Utilizing Princess Aurora and Sleeping Beauty as a case study and focal point, the authors discuss their collaborative arts research intended to explore problems and possibilities of princess culture. Keywords: Art Education; Arts Research; Fairy Tales; Media Studies, Princesses.Résumé : Les auteurs analysent la prévalence de la culture des princesses dans la littérature, les films et la culture visuelle des jeunes. Les auteures, une éducatrice artistique, une historienne et une professeure de littérature anglaise, proposent des actions créatives par le biais de ressources et lectures alternatives. Axée sur les fondements de l’étude des médias et sur la littérature liée à l’étude des contes de fées et de la jeunesse féminine, cette collaboration interdisciplinaire se penche sur les difficultés créatrices complexes des histoires de jeunesse féminine et de princesses. À partir d’une étude de cas de la princesse Aurora et de la Belle au bois dormant, les auteurs utilisent leur recherche artistique concertée pour analyser les problèmes et les possibilités de cette culture des princesses.Mots-clés : éducation artistique ; recherche artistique ; contes de fées ; étude des médias, princesses.

scholarly journals Ekofilm 97

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Uhde
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Sleeping Beauty ◽  
Medieval Architecture ◽  
Natural Heritage ◽  
The North ◽  
Film And Video

IT WAS NO COINCIDENCE that the fairy-tale Southern Bohemian town of Český Krumlov became the site of the 23rd Festival of Film and Video programmes on Environment (EKOFILM 97). Cesky Krumlov, which is on the UNESCO's world cultural and natural heritage list, taking over the EKOFILM from the North Moravian Ostrava which hosted the festival since its inception during the communist rule in the mid-1970s. In those difficult days this festival was, as its present director Dr. Bedřich Moldán says, one of the "rare islands of renewed and fresh normality within an abnormal world." Some people see a deeper symbolism behind EKOFILM's new home: the steel-city Ostrava (a kind of Czech Detroit), was an example of environmental devastation while Český Krumlov, a few years ago still a neglected, dilapidating town, has been undergoing a careful restoration, revealing the Sleeping-Beauty charms of its medieval architecture....

scholarly journals Sleeping Beauty

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-161
Author(s):  
Margreet Boomkamp
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
High Standard ◽  
Sleeping Beauty ◽  
Brothers Grimm ◽  
Considerable Success ◽  
Precise Moment ◽  
Very High

The interest in fairy tales grew strongly over the course of the nineteenth century, particularly in Germany, the birthplace of Frans Stracké (1820-1898). Renowned artists made illustrations for popular publications of fairy tales and in the middleof the century characters from fairy tales also appeared in paintings and sculptures. The sculptor Frans Stracké was inspired by this development and in the eighteen-sixties created a Sleeping Beauty and a Snow White. He may have chosen these designs because the sleeping figure offers greater sculptural possibilities, for example in funeral art. He showed Sleeping Beauty at the precise moment she falls asleep, after she had pricked her finger on a spindle. Stracké followed the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm from 1812, in which the ill-fated event was predicted during the celebration of Sleeping Beauty’s birth. Sleeping Beauty (also known as Briar Rose) was precisely the sort of subject Stracké preferred: he excelled in making genre-like sculpture of a very high standard. This was little appreciated in the Netherlands, whereas in France and Italy practitioners of this type of sculpture enjoyed considerable success. Stracké is credited with introducing contemporary developments in European sculpture into the Netherlands; Sleeping Beauty is a relatively early and typical example.

New Heroines in Old Skins: Fairy Tale Revisions in Young Adult Dystopian Literature

2020 ◽  
pp. 95-108
Author(s):  
Jill Coste
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Sleeping Beauty ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Dystopian Literature ◽  
The Status

This chapter examines three Sleeping Beauty retellings to illustrate the way dystopian scenarios complicate traditional fairy tale tropes. Dystopian literature and fairy tale retellings often feature elements of embodiment, romance, and political activism, and this chapter uses these key notions to consider how the dystopian fairy tale deploys feminist empowerment. While YA dystopian fairy tales often highlight collective action and social activism to resist the status quo, others reproduce troubling representations of passive heroines. This chapter argues that the dystopian YA fairy tale is uniquely primed to address the potential and power of contemporary young women.

Doña Bárbara: Un Cuento De Hadas

PMLA ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 85 (5) ◽  
pp. 1015-1022
Author(s):  
André S. Michalski
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Sleeping Beauty ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Psychological Realism ◽  
Romulo Gallegos

Despite the often praised realism of Rómulo Gallegos' major novel, some of its episodes are not very plausible, due not so much to an overriding allegorical symbolism as to still another narrative plane that has generally been neglected by criticism, that of folk mythology. Doña Bárbara is a legendary character introduced in a ritual style reminiscent of fairy tales. The entire novel is a retelling of a fairy tale, with Doña Bárbara as the evil sorceress, Marisela as the Sleeping Beauty, and Luzardo as Prince Charming. Doña Bárbara is called the “devourer of men,” an epithet that equates her with the flat grassland over which she reigns and identifies her as a type of nymph or siren who entices and destroys men. Inspired by both the European and American Indian legends, Gallegos endowed her with traits of European witches, as well as those typical of Indian shamans, especially nagualism. Thus, events hard to believe on the psychological plane of the narrative, such as the swift change in the character of the protagonist, appear logical on the mythical level, which is as important to the understanding of the novel as those of psychological realism and allegory. (In Spanish)

Sleeping Beauty

Experiment ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
Ludmila Piters-Hofmann
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Sleeping Beauty ◽  
The Impact

Abstract At the beginning of the twentieth century, Viktor Vasnetsov (1848-1926) started his work on the cycle Poema semi skazok [The Poem of Seven Fairy Tales] (1900-26). This self-imposed task included seven monumental paintings depicting popular Russian folktales. Yet, among the representations of famous Russian fairy tale characters, there is a canvas that centers on the Spiashchaia tsarevna [Sleeping Tsarevna] (1900-26), a character originally from Western Europe. This article will focus on the depths of the impact of Western traditions on this seemingly Russian painting by first elaborating on the development of Sleeping Beauty as a character in fairy tales and the spread of her popularity as far as Russia and second by analyzing the painting itself for Russian and European elements in composition and style.

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