The Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures

From Cinderella to comic con to colonialism and more, this companion provides readers with a comprehensive and current guide to the fantastic, uncanny, and wonderful worlds of the fairy tale across media and cultures. It offers a clear, detailed, and expansive overview of contemporary themes and issues throughout the intersections of the fields of fairy-tale studies, media studies, and cultural studies, addressing, among others, issues of reception, audience cultures, ideology, remediation, and adaptation. Examples and case studies are drawn from a wide range of pertinent disciplines and settings, providing thorough, accessible treatment of central topics and specific media from around the globe.

Basic Concepts; Overview of Basic Concepts: Folklore, Fairy Tale, Culture, and Media; Definition and History of Fairy Tales; Constructing Fairy-Tale Media Forms: Texts, Textures, Contexts; Analytical Approaches; Formalism; Psychology; Marxism; Performance; Feminism; Postmodernism; Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Decolonization; Issues; Political and Identity Issues; Activism (Folktales and Social Justice: When Marvelous Tales from the Oral Tradition Help Rethink and Stir the Present from the Margins); Disability; Gender; Indigeneity (E Hö okikohö e ia Pe ape amakawalu [Digitizing the Eight-Eyed Bat]: Indigenous Wonder Tales, Culture, and Media); Orientalism (Excavation and Representation: Two Orientalist Modes in Fairy Tales); Thematic Issues; Adaptation and the Fairy-Tale Web; Advertising; Convergence Culture (Media Convergence, Convergence Culture, and Communicative Capitalism); Crime/Justice; Disney Corporation; Hybridity; Francisco Vaz da Silva; Intellectual Property; Pornography ; Storyworlds/Narratology; Intersectional Issue.