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Author Zipes, Jack, 1937-

Title Happily ever after : fairy tales, children, and the culture industry / Jack Zipes
Published New York : Routledge, 1997

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Description x, 171 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Of Cats and Men: Framing the Civilizing Discourse of the Fairy Tale -- 2. The Rationalization of Abandonment and Abuse in Fairy Tales: The Case of Hansel and Gretel -- 3. Toward a Theory of the Fairy-Tale Film: The Case of Pinocchio -- 4. Once Upon a Time beyond Disney: Contemporary Fairy-Tale Films for Children -- 5. Lion Kings and the Culture Industry -- 6. Revisiting Benjamin's "The Storyteller": Reviving the Past to Move Forward
Summary Traces the movement of fairy tales as tales to basis for commerce via such routes as Disney films which became promotions for toy spinoffs
Notes Bibliography: p[153]-162. _ Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page [153-162) and index
Subject Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Fairy tales -- Film adaptations.
Fairy tales -- Filmand video adaptations
Fairy tales -- History and criticism.
Folk literature -- History and criticism.
Folklore and children -- History and criticism.
Folklore and children.
Folklore -- History and criticism
Tales -- History and criticism.
Genre/Form Film adaptations.
LC no. 96038237
ISBN 0415918502 (cloth)
0415918510 (paperback)