REALMS OF FANTASY

Fairy tale is an increasingly important part of modern cinema, but has been given little consideration with film studies. This important book brings together critical approaches from fairy tale studies, film studies and feminist studies, including philosophical and psychoanalytic methodologies. It offers ways of analysing fairy tale strategies and enunciation, explores the role of fantasy in the spectatorship of fairy tale cinema, and considers its potential for offering a feminine voice. Key areas include unconscious and cultural fantasy in films of childhood or adolescence, the active heroine, glittering female masquerade, and the complex possibilities for desire offered by fairy tale film. Films include A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), The Night of the Hunter (1955), The Company of Wolves (1984), Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), Stardust (2007) and Enchanted (2007).

December 2009
224 pages

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Alison Tedman is Senior Lecturer in Film at Buckinghamshire New University.