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From mouse to mermaid, an interdisciplinary collection of original essays, is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of disney cinema. In the seven essays in breaking the magic spell, zipes discusses historically and critically the evolution of folk tales as fairy tales, their jack david zipes. This revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark breaking the magic spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world. In his examinations of key classical fairy tales, zipes. Breaking the disney spell film at the end of the 19th century jack zipes early animation film was revolutionary for fairy tales in that the now imposed themselves on the text, and formed their own text in violation of print338. The blue fairy is a major character in the 1940 disney animated feature film pinocchio. Zipes shows how walt disney appropriated snow white to express notions of american male individualism and how l. Breaking the magic spell by jack zipes, 97808190303. Breaking the disney spell by jack zipes a closer look at. Frank baums the wizard of oz as critiques of american myths, and robert blys iron john as a misunderstanding of folklore.
Radical theories of folk and fairy tales revised, expanded. Zipess most popular book is dont bet on the prince. In this expansion of his seminal 1979 sociopolitical study, he analyzes the history, original utopian function, and culture industrys commercialization of. Buy classic fairy tales a norton critical edition 99 edition 9780393972771 by na for up to 90% off at. Most of us are aware that disney lies, even if we cannot quite remember what the original version was like. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Radical theories of folk and fairy tales the name jack zipes is synonymous with highly regarded and widely read anthologies. Jack zipes, in his essay breaking the disney spell, directly addresses the issue of what happens when a story is taken from its original oral.
Walt disney, the man who created mickey mouse, was first and foremost a businessman. Jack zipes selected the tales in charles godfrey leland and his magical talesfrom five different books the algonquin legends 1884, legends of florence 189596, the unpublished letters of virgil 1901, the english gypsies 1882, and gypsy sorcery and fortunetelling 1891and has arranged them thematically. This revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark breaking the magic spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our. Jack zipes utopian tendencies of oddly modern fairy tales. These books celebrate the poetic power of fantasy and illustrate how writers and artists have used their art to generate hope in their readers. Breaking the disney spell by jack zipes in the article breaking the disney spell, zipes point out that because disney was so obsessed with the fairytale genre and he felt drawn to fairytales because they reflected his own struggles in life p.
Addressing childrens classics as well as the disney affiliates more recent attempts to capture adult audiences, the contributors respond to the disney film legacy from feminist, marxist, poststructuralist, and cultural studies perspectives. The early chapbooks or cheap books that were carried by peddlers or. In response, zipes sent me a chapter on american fairytale films for his next book, fairytale films beyond disney, in which he examines the fairytaleinspired films of the past two. Breaking the disney spell by jack zipes when thinking of tales such as snow white or cinderella, we tend to immediately associate the stories with the disney productions and animated characters, never acknowledging the writers and collectors that they originated from. Dear friends, i have recently published a study of ernst blochs significant works with palgravemacmillan and would like to share this book with all of you interested in one of the major philosophers of the 20 th century. Considering classic childrens fairy tales to, zipes german, u. In seven provocative essays, zipes discusses the importance of investigating oral folk. This acclaimed book by jack zipes is available at in several formats for your ereader. According to jack zipes in his article, breaking the disney spell, in from mouse to mermaid. I read a copy published in 1979, but i know theres an updated and annotated version that was released more recently. Breaking the disney spell by jack zipes 1888 words bartleby. Ger 10 zipes \breaking the disney spell\ from mouse.