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Sommario
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction – Into the Burning Coals(Christopher Holliday and Chris Pallant)
Part 1: Innovation, Technology, and Style
Chapter One – From Caligari to Disney: The Legacy of German Expressionist Cinema in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Victoria Mullins)
Chapter Two – From Terrible Toreadors to Dwarfs and Princesses: Forging Disney’s Style of Animation (Stéphane Collignon and Ian Friend)
Chapter Three – The Depth Deception: Landscape, Technology and the Manipulation of Disney’s Multiplane Camera in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) (Christopher Holliday and Chris Pallant)
Chapter Four – Character costume portrayal and the multi-layered process of costume design in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) (Maarit Kalmakurki)
Chapter Five – Making it Disney’s Snow White (Amy M. Davis)
Part 2: Snow White in Hollywood
Chapter Six – With a Smile and a Song: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as the first Integrated Film Musical (Sadeen Elyas)
Chapter Seven – Dwarfland: Marketing Disney’s Folly (Pamela O’Brien)
Chapter Eight – Framing Snow White: Preservation, Nostalgia and the American Way in the 1930s (Jane Batkin)
Chapter Nine – Recasting Snow White: Parodic Animated Homages to the Disney Feature (Terry Lindvall)
Part 3: International Legacies
Chapter Ten – The Indigenisation of Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) in China: From ‘Snow Sister’ and ‘Dolly Girl’ to Chinese Snow White (1940) and Princess Iron Fan (1941) (Yuanyuan Chen)
Chapter Eleven – Unearthing Blanche-Neige: the making of the first made-in-Hollywood French version of Snow White and its critical reception. (Greg Philip and Sébastien Roffat)
Chapter Twelve – From Disney to LGBTQ tales: the South-American Snow White in Over the Rainbow: Um Livro de Contos de Fadxs (Priscila Mana Vaz, Thaiane de Oliveira Moreira and Janderson Pereira Toth)
Chapter Thirteen – Snow White’s censors: The non-domestic reception and censorship of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with a case study on the Low Countries (Daniël Biltereyst)
Chapter Fourteen – Snow White in the Spanish cultural tradition: analysis of the contemporary audiovisual adaptations of the tale (Irene Raya Bravo and María del Mar Rubio-Hernández)
Chapter Fifteen – The Adventures of Snow White in Turkish Cinema’ (Zeynep Gültekin Akçay)
Index
Info autore
Chris Pallant is Head of the School of Design at University of Greenwich, UK. He is the author of Demystifying Disney (2011) and Storyboarding: A Critical History (2015), and editor of Animated Landscapes: History, Form and Function (2015) and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: New Perspectives on Production, Reception, Legacy (2021). He currently serves as President for the Society for Animation Studies.Christopher Holliday teaches Film Studies and Liberal Arts at King’s College London, UK. He has published widely on animation, and is the author of The Computer-Animated Film: Industry, Style and Genre (forthcoming 2018), and co-editor of Fantasy/Animation: Connections Between Media, Mediums and Genres (forthcoming 2018).
Riassunto
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com
Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand, 1937) occupies a central place within the history of global animation. Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, the film was the first feature-length animated film produced by the Disney Studio and served to announce the animated cartoon as an industrial art form. Yet Disney’s landmark version not only set in motion the Golden Age of the Hollywood cartoon, but has continued to stand as an international sensation, prompting multiple revisions and remakes within a variety of national filmmaking contexts. This book explores the enduring qualities that have marked Snow White’s influence and legacy, providing a collection of original chapters that reflect upon its pioneering use of technology and contributions to animation’s visual style, the film’s reception within an American context, and its status as a global cultural phenomenon.
Prefazione
A collection of original chapters on Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), exploring its production, significance and international legacy.
Testo aggiuntivo
A meticulous analysis of one of the most complicated movies in film history, this volume places Disney’s masterpiece within discussions of European art cinema, aesthetic influence, the history of the musical, costume design, the Hollywood film as international commodity, and much more. Of all the work on this great film, this is the definitive edition, by far “the fairest of them all.”
