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Snow White and the seven dwarfs /

"Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand, 1937) occupies a central place within the history of global animation. Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, the film was the first feature-length animated film produced by the Disney Studio and served to announce...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pallant, Chris (Editor), Holliday, Christopher (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Animation: key films/filmmakers.
Subjects:
Snow White and the seven dwarfs (Motion picture)
Animation (Cinematography) > History.
Animated films > United States > History and criticism.
Animation (Cinéma) > Histoire.
Animated films.
Animated films
Animation (Cinematography)
United States
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Into the Burning Coals(Christopher Holliday and Chris Pallant)
  • Part 1: Innovation, Technology, and Style
  • Chapter One
  • From Caligari to Disney: The Legacy of German Expressionist Cinema in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Victoria Mullins)
  • Chapter Two
  • From Terrible Toreadors to Dwarfs and Princesses: Forging Disney's Style of Animation (Stéphane Collignon and Ian Friend)
  • Chapter Three
  • The Depth Deception: Landscape, Technology and the Manipulation of Disney's Multiplane Camera in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) (Christopher Holliday and Chris Pallant)
  • Chapter Four
  • Character costume portrayal and the multi-layered process of costume design in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) (Maarit Kalmakurki)
  • Chapter Five
  • Making it Disney's Snow White (Amy M. Davis)
  • Part 2: Snow White in HollywoodChapter Six
  • With a Smile and a Song: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as the first Integrated Film Musical (Sadeen Elyas)
  • Chapter Seven
  • Dwarfland: Marketing Disney's Folly (Pamela O'Brien)
  • Chapter Eight
  • Framing Snow White: Preservation, Nostalgia and the American Way in the 1930s (Jane Batkin)
  • Chapter Nine
  • Recasting Snow White: Parodic Animated Homages to the Disney Feature (Terry Lindvall)
  • Part 3: International Legacies
  • Chapter Ten
  • The Indigenisation of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) in China: From 'Snow Sister' and 'Dolly Girl' to Chinese Snow White (1940) and Princess Iron Fan (1941) (Yuanyuan Chen)
  • Chapter Eleven
  • Unearthing Blanche-Neige: the making of the first made-in-Hollywood French version of Snow White and its critical reception. (Greg Philip and Sébastien Roffat)
  • Chapter Twelve
  • From Disney to LGBTQ tales: the South-American Snow White in Over the Rainbow: Um Livro de Contos de Fadxs (Priscila Mana Vaz, Thaiane de Oliveira Moreira and Janderson Pereira Toth)
  • Chapter Thirteen
  • Snow White's censors: The non-domestic reception and censorship of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with a case study on the Low Countries (Daniël Biltereyst)
  • Chapter Fourteen
  • Snow White in the Spanish cultural tradition: analysis of the contemporary audiovisual adaptations of the tale (Irene Raya Bravo and María del Mar Rubio-Hernández)
  • Chapter Fifteen
  • The Adventures of Snow White in Turkish Cinema' (Zeynep Gültekin Akçay)
  • Index