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Fairy Tale Films by Pauline Greenhill, Sidney Eve Matrix

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Fairy Tale Films
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Publisher: Utah State University Press
ISBN-13: 9780874217810
Number of pages: 279

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Here, scholars from film, folklore, and cultural studies move discussion beyond the well-known Disney movies to the many other filmic adaptations of fairy tales and to the widespread use of fairy tale tropes, themes, and motifs in cinema.

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