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Tag Archives: adaptation
CFA: Gothic Afterlives: The Reincarnation of Horror in Film and Television
Call for articles for Gothic Afterlives, a new collection on adaptations and remakes of the Gothic in film and TV, edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell. Twenty-first century media have seen a rise not only in remakes and ‘re-imaginings’, but also transmedia … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles
Tagged adaptation, Film, Genre, Gothic, remakes, transmediation, TV
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More Beauty and the Beast
More useful links on ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (see previous posts by Sam and I). First, a short piece by Constance Grady on some of the many various adaptations of the tales, covering Robin McKinley’s Beauty and Rose Daughter, Angela … Continue reading
Review: Beauty and the Beast, dir. by Bill Condon (Disney, 2017)
Sam and I have been posting on the theme of ‘Beauty and the Beast recently here and here (I am doing research on the tale and will be presenting a paper at the Damsels in Redress conference next month). I … Continue reading
The Company of Wolves: Angela Carter and Neil Jordan
From the brilliant Angela Carter Online website (thanks to Caleb Sivyer), here’s a fascinating discussion between Angela Carter and Neil Jordan, the director of the film adaptation of Carter’s wolf narratives as The Company of Wolves.
Posted in Interviews
Tagged adaptation, Angela Carter, Company of Wolves, Film, Neil Jordan, Wolves
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CFP: Thinking with Stories in Times of Conflict: A Conference in Fairy-Tale Studies, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, August 2-5, 2017
Yet another exciting conference–on fairy tale in situations of conflict: Thinking with Stories in Times of Conflict: A Conference in Fairy-Tale Studies, at Wayne State University (whose press publish a great series on fairy tale studies), 2-5 August 2017. Deadline … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences)
Tagged adaptation, fairy tale, gender, Genre, postcolonial, war
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CFP: Re-orienting the Fairy Tale, Kanagawa University, Japan, 29-30 March 2017
This conference on Re-orienting the Fairy Tale, subtitled ‘Contemporary Fairy-Tale Adaptations across Cultures’, looks wonderful and covers the area of research I’m concentrating on at the moment–fairy tale adaptation in various media is a key concern of all of us … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences)
Tagged adaptation, art, Fairy tales, Film, globalisation, graphic novels, identity, Japan, National Identity, non-Western culture
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Fairy Tales, feminism, and strangeness
A handful of interesting items on fairy tale here. First, a very scholarly but readable and fascinating account of the classic English fairy tale, ‘Mr Fox’ (a Bluebeard variant). Then, there’s a review, ‘A Dwarf Becomes a Wolf Girl in … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles, Critical thoughts
Tagged adaptation, Angela Carter, Fairy tales, Feminism, Folklore, Giambattista Basile, women
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Decadent fairy tales
Here’s a review of a fascinating-looking new collection of fairy tales by French decadent writers around the fin de siècle. The editors say Nearly a century before postmodern fairytales by Margaret Atwood, AS Byatt, Angela Carter and others upend fairytale … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles, Reviews
Tagged adaptation, aestheticism, Angela Carter, Apollinaire, Baudelaire, decadence, Fairy tales
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Angela Carter: Wolves and other beasts
I won’t apologise for another post on the brilliant Angela Carter! This is an excellent article by Kat Ellinger on the wonderful Neil Jordan/Angela Carter collaboration The Company of Wolves. It shows how the source material of the film derives … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts, Reviews
Tagged adaptation, Angela Carter, Company of Wolves, fairy tale, Film, Neil Jordan, surrealism, Wolves
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The Lost Boys — TV series
I like the concept of this forthcoming adaptation of Joel Schumacher’s classic 1980s vampire film, The Lost Boys as a TV series, described here.