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Informationen zum Autor Kristian Moen is a Lecturer in Screen Studies in the Department of Drama: Theatre! Film! Television at the University of Bristol. He has published and presented on topics including nineteenth-century visual culture! cinema and modernity! and the relationship between cinema and fantasy. 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. “A Dream We Make Wide Awake”: The Nineteenth Century FéerieChapter 2. A Cinema of Transformations: The Film Féerie and Georges MélièsChapter 3. Fairy-tale Aesthetics: Early Film Theory and The Blue Bird (1918)Chapter 4. Mary Pickford and the Fantasies of Stardom Chapter 5. Sites of Enchantment and The Thief of Bagdad (1924) Chapter 6. Framing Fairy Tales and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)Afterword Mutability Lessons NotesBibliographyIndex
