Description: Preface Acknowledgments Prologue Part I 1. Filmic Adaptation and Appropriation of the Fairy Tale 2. De-Disneyfying Disney: Notes on the Development of the Fairy-Tale Film 3. Georges Mlis: Pioneer of the Fairy-Tale Film and the Art of the Ridiculous 4. Animated Fairy-tale Cartoons: Celebrating the Carnival Art of the Ridiculous 5. Animated Feature Fairy-Tale Films Part II 6. Cracking the Magic Mirror: Re-Presentations of Snow White 7. The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood Revisited and Reviewed 8. Bluebeard's Original Sin and the Rise of Serial Killing, Mass Murder, and Fascism 9. The Triumph of the Underdog: Cinderella's Legacy 10. Abusing and Abandoning Children: "Hansel and Gretel," "Tom Thumb," "The Pied Piper," "Donkey-Skin," and "The Juniper Tree" 11. Choosing the Right Mate: Why Beasts and Frogs Make for Ideal Husbands 12. Andersen's Cinematic Legacy: Trivialization and Innovation Part III 13. Adapting Fairy-Tale Novels 14. Between Slave Language and Utopian Optimism: Neglected Fairy-Tale Films of Central and Eastern Europe 15. Fairy-Tale Films in Dark Times: Breaking Molds, Seeing the World Anew Bibliography Filmography

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