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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, episodes, and as freestanding motifs.
List of contents
Introduction: Fairy-Tale Television (FTTV) Invokes Reality and Possibility 1. Historical Perspectives and Theoretical Directions 2. Event FTTV in Musicals, Movies, and Mini-Series: Exploring Performance and Transformation 3. Anthologies: Exploring Community, Fairy-Tale Happiness, and Televisual Storytelling 4. Motif-Spotting in Advertising and Reality: Exploring Lifestyle 5. Episodes: Exploring Characters 6. Series and Seasons: Exploring Crime and Justice in Fairy-Tale Procedurals Conclusion: Future Excursions with FTTV Wonder
About the author
Jill Terry Rudy is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA. She edited The Marrow of Human Experience: Essays on Folklore by William A. Wilson and co-edited Channeling Wonder: Fairy Tales on Television with Pauline Greenhill. The Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures, co-edited with Pauline Greenhill, Naomi Hamer, and Lauren Bosc, was published in 2018. She co-directs the digital humanities project "Visualizing Wonder: Fairy Tales and Television."
Pauline Greenhill is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Her fairy-tale-focused books (in addition to those with Jill Terry Rudy) include Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms (co-editor Kay Turner, 2012); and Fairy-Tale Films Beyond Disney: International Perspectives (co-editors Jack Zipes and Kendra Magnus-Johnston, 2016). She recently completed Clever Maids, Fearless Jacks, and a Cat: Fairy Tales from a Living Oral Tradition (with Anita Best and Martin Lovelace, 2019).
Summary
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, episodes, and as freestanding motifs.
