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Tag Archives: fairy tale
CFPs and Events: Crones, vampires, Alice, Blake, Shelley, Burns Night
An assortment of conference CFPs and calls for articles, plus online events. 1. CFP: Crones, Crime, and the Gothic, In-person Conference, Falmouth University UK, 10-11 June 2022. Deadline: 1 April 2022. Older women have traditionally been portrayed negatively in folklore, … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles, CFP (Conferences), Events
Tagged art, fairy tale, Film, Gothic, Lewis Carroll, Percy Shelley, Robert Burns, Romanticism, TV, Vampires, William Blake, witches
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Gothic Fairies Conference 8-11 April – Booking is Open
We are excited to announce that booking has opened for our Gothic Fairies Online Conference ‘Ill met by moonlight’: Gothic encounters with enchantment and the Faerie realm in literature and culture, 8‒11 April 2021 Full Conference Programme Keynotes and Activities Booking Link Fees: … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Events, OGOM: Ill met by moonlight
Tagged fairies, fairy tale, Folklore, Gothic, Open Graves Open Minds
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CFPs: Folk horror, folklore and fantasy, enchanted environments, literature and science
* Hurry! Some of these deadlines are very soon! 1. Contemporary Folk Horror in Film and Media, Leeds Beckett University, 30-31 July 2020. Deadline: 30 December 2019. The 1960’s and 70s folk horror canon brought the ‘Unholy Trinity’ of Witchfinder General (1968), The Blood on … Continue reading
CFPs: Cine-excess, tales of terror, performing fairy
1. Cine Excess XIII: Independent Visions of Excess, 7-9 November 2019, Birmingham City University. Deadline: 6 September 2019 For its 13th annual edition, Cine Excess focuses on independent visions of excess and the contribution of independent filmmakers working outside of the mainstream … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles, CFP (Conferences)
Tagged cinema, fairies, fairy tale, Folklore, horror, performance, phenomenology, short story, storytelling, tales, transgression
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RIP Michel Legrand
It was sad to hear of the death of Michel Legrand (1932-2019) on Saturday. Legrand wrote the music to countless films, many from French New Wave cinema. His music fits perfectly the stylish and witty reinterpretation of Perrault’s fairy tale … Continue reading
Posted in Film Clips, News
Tagged Charles Perrault, fairy tale, Film, Jacques Demy, New Wave cinema, obituary
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CFPs: Magical cities, coastal folklore, folk horror, folklore and the fantastic, Walpole
Some more CFPs to tempt you: 1. From the brilliant people at Supernatural Cities (who were such good partners at our Urban Weird conference in April this year), the Magical Cities conference, 15 June 2019, University of Portsmouth. Deadline: 31 … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles, CFP (Conferences)
Tagged cities, ecology, Eighteenth century, fairy tale, Fantasy, Folk Horror, Folklore, Gothic novel, Horace Walpole, magic, place, queer, sea, urban
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Fairy Tales: art, essays, and resources
Some more interesting links on fairy tales: Margaret Carrigan, in ‘What Can Fairy Tales Tell Us About Today? Two Video Artists Offer Modern Takes‘, reviews the video art of Ericka Beckman and Marianna Simnett, showing at London’s Zabludowicz Collection through … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts, exhibitions, Resources
Tagged adaptation, art, fairy tale, Feminism, Genre, Gothic, Grimm brothers, Mary de Morgan, Pre-Raphaelit, Rana Dasgupta, suffragette, video
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Redeeming Beauties and Beasts, Wolves and Humans
Kaja and Sam have made me feel guilty, so I’ll just give an account of what I’ll be talking about at the Being Human: Redeeming the Wolf event. I’ll be following up some of the themes that Sam and Kaja have … Continue reading
Posted in Events, OGOM Research
Tagged animality, Beauty and the Beast, fairy tale, Maggie Stiefvater, Paranormal romance, Red Riding Hood, Werewolves, Wolves
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Female Werewolves and the Big, Bad Wolf
In anticipation of OGOM’s Being Human event, ‘Redeeming the Wolf: A Story of Persecution, Loss, and Rediscovery‘ (tickets for this free event still available here), here are three items which may instruct or amuse. Alexandra MoeHagen argues here that ‘Female … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged adaptation, comics, fairy tale, Feminism, gender, Red Riding Hood, Werewolves, Wolves
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Latest YA Fantasy Reading
We now and then like to supply reading lists that we have come across from various sources. These have all been placed in their own Reading Lists category so you can easily search through them. The Barnes & Noble Teen … Continue reading
Posted in Reading Lists, Reviews
Tagged adaptation, bisexuality, fairy tale, Fantasy, Paranormal romance, sexuality, YA Fiction, YA literature
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