There are some scholars that, as much as I would like to try, I just cannot avoid. They are the ones that add conversation and dialogue to my research, taking it to a deeper level. Sure, it would be easy to ignore them, but then I’d be just as shallow a researcher as the Shallow Researcher “archetype” at the core of my academic shadow projections. Today’s unavoidable researcher: Jack Zipes.… Continue reading
Fairy Tales and Utopian Ideals
Author: PriscillaJun 29
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Filed under: Culture Thinking, Disney, Fairy Tales | Tagged as: Disney, Disneyfication, fairy tales, Grimmification, Jack Zipes, Utopia
Grimmfication
Author: PriscillaApr 25
As a Disney-lover, dissertater, and thinker, I find myself constantly defending the Disneyfication/Disneyization of fairy tales. Fairy tale theorists have a difficult time accepting Disney’s films as one version among many, but rather see them as being the harbingers of the death of fairy tale culture. I hold the position that Walt Disney and Disney Corp translated written fairy tales into film to a) translate the fairy tale genre to… Continue reading