{"product_id":"fairy-tales-transformed-cristina-bacchilega-9780814334874","title":"Fairy Tales Transformed?: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eInvestigates early twenty-first-century fairy-tale transformations to explore the politics and poetics of adaptation.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFairy-tale adaptations are ubiquitous in modern popular culture, but readers and scholars alike may take for granted the many voices and traditions folded into today's tales. In \u003ci\u003eFairy Tales Transformed?: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder\u003c\/i\u003e, accomplished fairy-tale scholar Cristina Bacchilega traces what she terms a \"fairy-tale web\" of multivocal influences in modern adaptations, asking how tales have been changed by and for the early twenty-first century\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eDealing mainly with literary and cinematic adaptations for adults and young adults, Bacchilega investigates the linked and yet divergent social projects these fairy tales imagine, their participation and competition in multiple genre and media systems, and their relation to a politics of wonder that contests a naturalized hierarchy of Euro-American literary fairy tale over folktale and other wonder genres.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Bacchilega begins by assessing changes in contemporary understandings and adaptations of the Euro-American fairy tale since the 1970s, and introduces the fairy-tale web as a network of reading and writing practices with a long history shaped by forces of gender politics, capitalism, and colonialism. In the chapters that follow, Bacchilega considers a range of texts, from high profile films like Disney's \u003ci\u003eEnchanted, \u003c\/i\u003e Guillermo del Toro's \u003ci\u003ePan's Labyrinth, \u003c\/i\u003eand Catherine Breillat's \u003ci\u003eBluebeard\u003c\/i\u003e to literary adaptations like Nalo Hopkinson's \u003ci\u003eSkin Folk\u003c\/i\u003e, Emma Donoghue's \u003ci\u003eKissing the Witch, \u003c\/i\u003e and Bill Willingham's popular comics series, \u003ci\u003eFables\u003c\/i\u003e. She looks at the fairy-tale web from a number of approaches, including adaptation as \"activist response\" in Chapter 1, as remediation within convergence culture in Chapter 2, and a space of genre mixing in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 connects adaptation with issues of translation and stereotyping to discuss mainstream North American adaptations of \u003ci\u003eThe Arabian Nights\u003c\/i\u003e as \"media text\" in post-9\/11 globalized culture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Bacchilega's epilogue invites scholars to intensify their attention to multimedia fairy-tale traditions and the relationship of folk and fairy tales with other cultures' wonder genres. Scholars of fairy-tale studies will enjoy Bacchilega's significant new study of contemporary adaptations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cristina Bacchilega\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814334873\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814334874\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wayne State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2014","brand":"Cristina Bacchilega","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926427828479,"sku":"9780814334874","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_f8d236b6-f95e-4669-895d-bbbdaca70e5a.jpg?v=1681083034","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fairy-tales-transformed-cristina-bacchilega-9780814334874","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}