Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry

ISBN-13: 9780415918510 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 184 str.

Jack Zipes

Opis

Addressing his ongoing concerns, the author of this text examines the socialization of children, the impact of the fairy tale on children and adults, and the future development of the fairy tale as a film. As a result of analyzing the historical trajectory of storytelling and the literary fairy tale, the essays in this volume move from the 16th century to the present, between different cultures and societies, and from specific analyses to general syntheses.

Recenzje

"...[Zipes'] book does make us wonder whether we should be packing our children off to films that have more to do with mass merchandising than mystery and wonder." -- Teacher
"An incisive study of fairy tales, ofhow they have been shaped by our culture, and how in turn, our culture has been shaped by them. [Zipes] suggests that the shift from oral to literary traditions helped to institutionalize and commodify fairy tales, and that the film industry has driven this trend to extremes ... it would certainly trigger some stirring classroom debates." -- Christian Library Journal

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 Of Cats and Men; Chapter 2 The Rationalization of Abandonment and Abuse in Fairy Tales; Chapter 3 Toward a Theory of the Fairy-Tale Film; Chapter 4 Once Upon a Time beyond Disney; Chapter 5 Lion Kings and the Culture Industry; Chapter 6 Revisiting Benjamin’s “The Storyteller”;

O autorze

Jack Zipes is Professor of German at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, Don't Bet on the Prince and Creative Storytelling, all published by Routledge.