The Fairy Tale and Its Uses in Contemporary New Media and Popular Culture

• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2016
• Subjects: toys; Americanization; twenty first century; television; gender studies; disneyification; new media; film; postcoloniality; hybridity; popular culture; fairy tale; digital humanities; intertextuality; commercialization; wonder; intermediality
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Ever since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the fairy tale has not only become a staple of the small and silver screen around the globe, it has also migrated into new media, overwhelming audiences with imaginative and spectacular retellings along the way. Indeed, modern fairy-tale adaptati...