Tag Archives: adaptation

Little Red Riding Hood Rides Again–and Again and Again and Again

Posted on 25th March 2015 by William the Bloody

One of the fairy tales that seems to attract multiple reinterpretations and adaptations is ‘Red Riding Hood’: Angela Carter’s subversive wolf stories (including ‘The Company of Wolves’) and Marissa Meyer’s SF version ‘Scarlet’ (in her Lunar Chronicles series) are excellent … Continue reading →

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Sir Christopher Frayling and Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber

Posted on 25th March 2015 by William the Bloody

Sir Christopher Frayling has applied his immense erudition to many areas of popular culture but will be best known here, perhaps, for his pioneering study, Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula (1978), which made academic research into vampire fiction respectable. … Continue reading →

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Versions of Cinderella

Posted on 25th March 2015 by William the Bloody

Fairy tales, as we’ve shown in quite a few posts on this blog, are prone to myriad reinventions and adaptations, not least in cinema. There are countless variations on ‘Cinderella’; here’s a summary of some of the recent film versions. … Continue reading →

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Film and Fairy Tale

Posted on 23rd March 2015 by William the Bloody

The reinvention of fairy tale through literary and cinematic adaptation is a whole area of debate in itself. These three pieces look at different aspects of film versions of fairy tales: first, ‘The 25 Best Live-Action Fairy Tale Movies Ever, … Continue reading →

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Folklore and Modern Irish Writing, by Anne Markey and Anne O’Connor

Posted on 19th March 2015 by William the Bloody

This book on Irish folklore and modern Irish writing looks very useful for those who, like myself, are fascinated by the way that folk tales can be endlessly reworked to give contemporary significance to old narrative structures and content.

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Alice in Wonderland Meets Dali and Nabokov in a New Exhibition

Posted on 1st March 2015 by William the Bloody

Jonathon Keats reviews a fascinating exhibition on Alice in Wonderland and its various translations and adaptations, including illustration. I didn’t realise Nabokov was the book’s Russian translator–I wonder what distinctive slant he might have given it? Nabokov’s book are full … Continue reading →

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What Disney princesses would look like if they were zombies

Posted on 1st March 2015 by William the Bloody

I do like Disney, but it’s always fun to see its wholesomeness subverted. Here, classic Disney princesses have succumbed to the zombie state, their perfection decaying and their cuteness become horror. This is pure silliness, really, yet can raise interesting … Continue reading →

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Review of Philip Pullman’s Grimm Tales

Posted on 3rd February 2015 by firekrank

My mother told me that you should never go to bed angry. The reviewer’s equivalent of this is you should never go to a show already inclined against it. However, the issue that gave me the Angry Reds regarding Philip … Continue reading →

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Michael Dirda reviews five fairy-tale books

Posted on 25th January 2015 by William the Bloody

A review of new books on the fairy tale by Marina Warner and Jack Zipes (including the first translation into English of the first edition of Grimm’s Tales), but also of two books from Princeton University Press’s Oddly Modern Fairy … Continue reading →

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wonder.land – a new musical

Posted on 24th January 2015 by William the Bloody

This sounds exciting! Another response to the 150th anniversary of Alice’s Adventures in WonderlandL Damon Albarn’s new musical, wonder.land.

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