Fairy Tale Films: Visions of Ambiguity

by Sidney Eve Matrix and Pauline Greenhill

In this, the first collection of essays to address the development of fairy tale film as a genre, Pauline Greenhill and Sidney Eve Matrix stress, "the mirror of fairy-tale film reflects not so much what its audience members actually are but how they see themselves and their potential to develop (or, likewise, to regress)." As Jack Zipes says further in the foreword, "Folk and fairy tales pervade our lives constantly through television soap operas...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874217814
• ISBN13: 9780874217810
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher