SurLaLune Fairy Tales: Guide to Disney and Fairy Tales


	Introduction \| Annotated Tales \| eBooks \| Bookstore \| Illustration Gallery \| Discussion Board \| Blog

FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions What Is a Fairy Tale?Quest for the Earliest Fairy Tales Fairy Tale Timeline Fairy Tale Quotations Children and Fairy Tales Women and Fairy Tales Disney and Fairy Tales Graduate Studies in Folklore Conferences of Interest
The Story of the Fairy Tale
by Carl Ewald Fairy Tales
by G. K. Chesterton Guide for Teachers Guide for Students Recommended Links Acknowledgements and Dedications About Heidi Anne Heiner

Site Map

SurLaLune frequently receives inquiries about Disney and fairy tales. Here is a summary of some of the most frequently recommended sources for researching the topic as well as links to archived discussions on the SurLaLune Discussion Board.

Books

Bell, Elizabeth, Lynda Hass, and Laura Sells, editors. From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1995.

Douglas, Susan J. Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media. New York: Crown, 1994.

Merritt, Russell and J. B. Kaufman. Walt in Wonderland: The Silent Films of Walt Disney. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.

Schickel, Richard. The Disney Version: The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney. Chicago: Ivan R Dee, 1968, 1985, 1997.

Thomas, Frank, and Ollie Johnston. Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life. Disney Editions, 1981.

Warner, Marina. From Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers. London: Chatto & Windus, 1994.

Watts, Stephen. The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1998.

Yolen, Jane. Touch Magic. Little Rock: August House, 2000.

Zipes, Jack. Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children and the Cultural Industry. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Articles

Cummins, June. "Romancing the Plot: The Real beast of Disney's Beauty and the Beast.” Children's Literature Association Quarterly. (Spring 1995): 22-28.

McCallum, Robyn, and John Stephens. "Film and Fairy Tales." The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales. Jack Zipes, editor. Oxford: Oxford University, 2000.

O'Brien, Pamela Colby. "The happiest films on earth: a textual and contextual analysis of Walt Disney's 'Cinderella' and 'The Little Mermaid." Women's Studies in Communication. vol. 19.2 (Summer 1996): 155-.

Panttaja, Elizabeth. "Going up in the world: class in "Cinderella." (Perspectives on the Innocent Persecuted Heroine in Fairy Tales)." Western Folklore. vol. 52.1 (Jan 1993): 85-.

Wood, Naomi J. "Walt Disney." The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales. Jack Zipes, editor. Oxford: Oxford University, 2000.

Yolen, Jane. "America's Cinderella." Cinderella: A Casebook. Alan Dundes, editor. Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1982.

Zipes, Jack. “Breaking the Disney Spell.” Fairy Tale as Myth: Myth as Fairy Tale. Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1994.

Endicott Studio Online Articles

"Snow, Glass, Apples: the Story of Snow White" by Terri Windling

Discussion Board Archives

October 2000: Disney and Fairy Tales--Helping Natasha

December 2001: Dark to Light- tale variants...

December 2001: Disney - influences

December 2001: False sense of reality

May 2002: Disneyfication of classic fairytales

February 2003: Disney Movies vs. Original Fairy Tales