The Grimms' Fairy Tales and their Afterlives
I: Once Upon a Time
1a: A New History of Fairy Tales
1b: Cinderella and Fairy Tale Magic
1c: The Problematic Popularity of Disney’s Cinderella
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II: The Popular Tales
2a: Tales of Child Abandonment
2b: Marriage and Maidens
2c: What’s A Prince Worth – A First Glance at Disney Revisionism
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III: The Oral Tradition of Myth & Folklore
3a: Myths & Legends: Germanic Oral Traditions
3b: Folk Tales & Fables: Folk Wisdom
3c: Friendship and Utopia in The Fellowship of the Ring
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IV: Literary Origins
4a: The Rise Tale - Italian Innovation
4b: The Child’s Tale - French Moralism
4c: Agency and Disillusionment in The Tale of Tales (2015)
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V: Review
5a: Writing your Essay, Literature and Film Analysis
5b: Analysis I – Social-Historical Comparison of Fairy Tales with Examples
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VI: The Grimms and German History
6a: Foundational Tales – The Romantics
6b: The Political Tales of the Weimar Republic
6c: Early Innovators of Animation in The Adventures of Prinz Achmed
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VII: Fairy Tale Ideologies
7a: Fairy Tales during the Third Reich
7b: Ideological Tales of East and West Germany
7c: The Popularity of East German Fairy Tales
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VIII: Grimm Environments
8a: The Wilds and Others
8b: Horror and Violence
8c: The Gendered Others in The Company of Wolves
IX: Grimm Figures
9a: Beauty and Vanity
9b: Heroes and Heroines
9c: The End of the Genre Cycle and The Princess Bride
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X: The Structure and Preference of Fairy Tales
10a: Story Structure and the Fairy Tale
10b: Fairy Tale Magic and Childhood Cognition
10c: The Culture Industry and Shrek! (2001)
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XI: The Psychology of Fairy Tales
11a: The Uses of Fairy Tales
11b: The Personality of the Fairy Tale
11c: Psychological Analysis of Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)
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XII: Disney's Civilizing Discourse
12a: Disney's Golden Age
12b: Disney’s Renaissance
12c: Disney Cinematic History
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XIII: The Fairy Tale Today
13a: Fairy Tale Television Tropes
13b: The Post-Modern Fairy Tale
13c: The Fine Arts and the Fairy Tale
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XIV: Review
14a: Analysis IV: Psychoanalytic Analysis of Fairy Tales (with Examples).
14b: Analysis V: Deconstructing Fairy Tales (with Examples).
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