Category Archives: fairy tales

Godawa and ‘The Shape of Water’: Seeing Pagan Beasts and Missing the Love of the Beauty

April 9th, 2018 | Posted in Christianity, fairy tales, fantasy, Guillermo del Toro

The Shape of Water has won numerous awards, including various film festivals, eventually winning four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Obviously, the film has been very well received, but no film is universally loved. There is always the subjective element, so it’s possible to find reviews from those for whom the film didn’t work. Even […]

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“Beauty and the Beast” and Fairy Tales

March 29th, 2017 | Posted in Disney, fairy tales

From time to time TheoFantastique looks at the significance of fairy tale in contemporary culture, and with the continued box office success of Disney’s live-action version of Beauty and the Beast, another opportunity presents itself. Readers may enjoy an essay in Jezebel.com titled “‘Beauty and the Beast’ Comes From a Long Line of Stories About […]

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New research on ancient origins of fairy tales

January 20th, 2016 | Posted in fairy tales

The BBC.com has an interesting story on the ancient origins of fairy tales titled “Fairy tale origins thousands of years old, researchers say.” The story tells of the research at the Universities of Durham and Lisbon that reveals that some basic fairy tale ideas go back quite some time: Using techniques normally employed by biologists, […]

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Marina Warner discusses “How Fairytales grew up”

December 15th, 2014 | Posted in fairy tales

Over at TheGuardian.com Marina Warner has an interesting essay titled “How fairytales grew up.” An excerpt: Fairytales are enjoying a huge rise in popularity and influence in symbiosis with the internet. The traditional functions of the bard and the griot in predominantly oral cultures included “keeping the memory of the tribe”, as Derek Walcott remarked […]

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Call for Papers: Fairy Tales

April 6th, 2012 | Posted in call for papers, fairy tales

The list for the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association recently shared a call for papers on fairy tales: The new millennium has born witness to a multitude of reinventions. Various mythological creatures have been reinvented, vampires, werewolves, and zombies to name but a few. Fairy tales also have been recreated in an ever […]

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Guillermo del Toro and Auteur Metaphysics

February 4th, 2011 | Posted in fairy tales, Guillermo del Toro, horror, religion

For a long time I have been interested in the influences on those who make great films and television, and how these influences are reflected in the art they produce. This is especially the case with those artists who embody their art, their art coming out as a result of the creative passions they live […]

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Highlight: The Tale of the Three Brothers

November 22nd, 2010 | Posted in animation, fairy tales

This last Saturday I went with my family to the theater to see the latest installment in the Harry Potter franchise, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows – Part 1. It may come as a surprise to regular readers of this blog who are familiar with my passion for the fantastic, but I have never […]

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Call for Papers on Fairy Tales

September 8th, 2010 | Posted in call for papers, conference, fairy tales

The Popular Culture Association has another call for papers, this one coming in the area of fairy tales. The CFP is reproduced below. Curiously, there is no mention of contemporary fairy tales as expressed through Guillermo del Toro and his masterpiece Pan’s Labyrinth, or as Walter Rankin has suggested in his book Grimm Pictures (McFarland, […]

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Fairy Tales: Popular Culture Association Call for Proposals

December 1st, 2009 | Posted in call for papers, fairy tales

2010 National Conference March 31 – April 3 St. Louis, Missouri Deadline for proposals: December 15, 2009 The Fairy Tales Area of the Popular Culture Association invites submissions on any topic involving Fairy Tales for the 2010 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Convention, to be held March 31-April 3 in St. Louis. The Fairy Tales […]

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Post-Millennial Road-Horror

September 1st, 2008 | Posted in Bill Ellis, fairy tales, folklore, horror, legend-tripping, road-horror

Texas Chainsaw Massacre I recently discovered an interesting academic source that explores horror and which I have included in my Exploring the Fantastic links, the Irish Gothic Horror Journal. This is a publication available in totality on the Internet, and as I reviewed the contents for various issues one of the items that caught my […]

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