Tag Archives: adaptation

CFP: Thinking with Stories in Times of Conflict: A Conference in Fairy-Tale Studies, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, August 2-5, 2017

Posted on 28th November 2016 by William the Bloody

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 →

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CFP: Re-orienting the Fairy Tale, Kanagawa University, Japan, 29-30 March 2017

Posted on 28th November 2016 by William the Bloody

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 →

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Fairy Tales, feminism, and strangeness

Posted on 28th November 2016 by William the Bloody

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 →

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Decadent fairy tales

Posted on 7th November 2016 by William the Bloody

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 →

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Angela Carter: Wolves and other beasts

Posted on 11th October 2016 by William the Bloody

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 →

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The Lost Boys — TV series

Posted on 24th August 2016 by William the Bloody

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.

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New YA and Fantasy Fiction

Posted on 24th August 2016 by William the Bloody

Two excellent lists here of recent and forthcoming YA fiction, most which appear to be fantastic and with strands of paranormal romance. Many are reworkings of fairy tales or classic narratives–a mode which OGOM is much fascinated by. I have … Continue reading →

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Fairy Tale Films

Posted on 15th August 2016 by William the Bloody

Some interesting recommendations here of ten fairy tale films that are not so mainstream. I’ve seen five of these, and am intrigued by the rest. Adaptations of Grimm, Perrault, and Andersen appear, of course, but also tales from the Arabian … Continue reading →

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Fairy tale and the bizarre

Posted on 10th August 2016 by William the Bloody

A very stimulating essay here by Tobias Carroll, ‘Why we love weird fairy tales’, tracing the career of the unsettling imagery found in the original fairy tale–here, particularly Giambattista Basile’s seventeenth-century collection The Tale of Tales. Carroll then shows the … Continue reading →

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CFP: Damsels in Redress: Women in Contemporary Fairy-Tale Reimaginings, Queen’s University Belfast, 7-8 April 2017

Posted on 29th July 2016 by William the Bloody

Reworkings of classic fairy tales is one of OGOM’s principal areas of research (and a favourite topic of my own). This conference at QU Belfast, Damsels in Redress: Women in Contemporary Fairy-Tale Reimaginings looks very exciting. I’ve posted about this … Continue reading →

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