Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry - Hardcover

Zipes, Jack

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415918502 ISBN 13: 9780415918503

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

About this title

About the Author:

Jack Zipes is Professor of German at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, Don't Bet on the Prince and Creative Storytelling, all published by Routledge.

From Library Journal:

Zipes (German, Univ. of Minnesota), well known in storytelling and folklore circles for such works as Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion (Routledge, 1985), confronts in this series of essays the question much discussed recently on listservs: How have the relatively new media of film and television affected traditional storytelling and stories, particularly fairy tales? Zipes is concerned with the "commodification" of fairy tales, a la Disney, where the films are designed more to sell a line of toys and other products than to present a story to an audience. Zipes traces the use of fairy tales in the acculturation process through various time periods, emphasizing the importance of being cognizant of the process itself. The beginning of an important discussion, his work is recommended for academic libraries and public libraries with substantial collections in either folklore or media studies.?Katherine K. Koenig, Ellis Sch., Pittsburgh, Pa.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0415918502
• ISBN 13: 9780415918503
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 182