Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zipes, Jack
• Greenhill, Pauline
• Magnus-Johnston, Kendra

Titel

The Fairy-Tale Film in Scandinavia

Ist Teil von

• Fairy-Tale Films Beyond Disney, 2015, p.127-141

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The author knows of the renowned teacher of film studies, Satish Bahadur through many of his former students, but she introduces herself by saying that she study folktales and fairy tales. In this chapter, the author explores popular Hindi cinema in India with reference to the fairy tale as a fantastic story with deeper meanings. Popular Hindi films can be usefully compared with the fairy-tale genre, not least because the latter is primarily an aesthetic identification of an artistic form and the elements that make it. The structure of popular Bollywood films has remained rather constant over several decades, although the themes of their stories have changed in the light of alterations in social and political conditions. Bollywood's strong appeal to local audiences has limited Hollywood's space for targeting the Indian market. Their diverging relationships with reality create huge differences in the interpretational value of fairy tales and popular Hindi films.