Channeling Wonder
Television has long been a familiar vehicle for fairy tales and is, in some ways, an ideal medium for the genre. Both more mundane and more wondrous than cinema, TV magically captures sounds and images that float through the air to bring them into homes, schools, and workplaces. Even apparently realistic forms, like the nightly news, routinely employ discourses of aonce upon a time, a ahappily ever after, a and aa Cinderella story.a In Channeling Wonder: Fairy Tales on Television, Pauline Greenhill and Jill Terry Rudy offer contributions that invite readers to consider what happens when fairy tale, a narrative genre that revels in variation, joins the flow of television experience. Looking in detail at programs from Canada, France, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the U.S., this volumeas twenty-three international contributors demonstrate the wide range of fairy tales that make their way into televisual forms. The writers look at fairy-tale adaptations in musicals like Rodgers and Hammersteinas Cinderella, anthologies like Jim Hensonas The Storyteller, made-for-TV movies like Snow White: A Tale of Terror, Bluebeard, and the Red Riding Trilogy, and drama serials like Grimm and Once Upon a Time. Contributors also explore more unexpected representations in the Carosello commercial series, the childrenas show Super Why!, the anime series Revolutionary Girl Utena, and the live-action dramas Train Man and Rich Man Poor Woman. In addition, they consider how elements from familiar tales, including aHansel and Gretel, a aLittle Red Riding Hood, a aBeauty and the Beast, a aSnow White, a and aCinderellaa appear in the long arc serials Merlin, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Dollhouse, and in a range of television formats including variety shows, situation comedies, and reality TV. Channeling Wonder demonstrates that fairy tales remain ubiquitous on TV, allowing for variations but still resonating with the wonder taleas familiarity. Scholars of cultural studies, fairy-tale studies, folklore, and television studies will enjoy this first-of-its-kind volume.The issues we raise with such use of fairy tales may seem highly reactionarya that tales are acorrupteda for television and ... In aTiddalick the Froga (1, 27; written by Shilla Dinsmore), the Super Readers discover Tiddalick, from Australiananbsp;...
| Title | : | Channeling Wonder |
| Author | : | Pauline Greenhill |
| Publisher | : | Wayne State University Press - 2014-10-06 |
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