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Tag Archives: fairy tales
Guillermo del Toro: Pan’s Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno)
The films of Guillermo del Toro have often dealt with innocence in a corrupt world; sometimes the innocence is found in surprising places, as in Hellboy, in which a demon becomes a savior. He also plays with the idea of … Continue reading
Posted in Film
Tagged fairy tales, surrealism
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Bill Willingham’s Fables: Camelot
Fables: Camelot is number 20 in the collected trade paperbacks of Bill Willingham’s very popular series. It seems that Rose Red is going to revive King Arthur’s Round Table, with herself in the role of Arthur. And she’s going to … Continue reading
Posted in Graphic Literature
Tagged comics, fairy tales, fantasy
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Marc Andreyko, Shawn McManus: Fairest: Of Men and Mice
Fairest: Of Men and Mice is a spin-off from Bill Willingham’s Fables series, and actually takes place immediately after the events in Fables: Camelot. It is, when it comes right down to it, the Fables Equivalent to a mystery thriller. Someone … Continue reading
Posted in Graphic Literature
Tagged fairy tales, fantasy
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Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel und Gretel
The idea of making an opera out of a fairy tale was not unique to Engelbert Humperdinck (this is the nineteenth-century composer I’m talking about, not the mid-twentieth century crooner). Actually, in the case of Hansel und Gretel, it wasn’t … Continue reading
Steven Posch’s Radio Paganistan: Folktales of the Urban Witches
The stories in Radio Paganistan were “recorded live at the fullness of the Hunter’s Moon 2002, by the enchanted garden, near the waters of Mississippi, West Paganistan.” I think that should tell you pretty much all you need to know … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged fairy tales, folklore, spoken word
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Gregory Maguire’s Mirror, Mirror
Liz Milner contributed this review. Gregory Maguire specializes in recasting fairy tales to fit modern preoccupations and sensibilities. It takes a certain amount of chutzpah to take stories that everyone knows too well and recycle them. Maguire has done this … Continue reading
Andy Tennant’s Ever After: A Cinderella Story
Michelle Erica Green penned this review. The myth of the plucky girl with the glass slipper has suffered quite a bit of criticism in the modern era. Disney’s film about the peasant princess portrayed her as a passive pollyanna whose … Continue reading