|
|
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > From 1900
This is the story; of two twin brothers; who are looking for a job;
until the drama; of their new neighbors; go through; their own
drama.
Television has long been a familiar vehicle for fairy tales and is,
in some ways, an ideal medium for the genre. Both more mundane and
more wondrous than cinema, TV magically captures sounds and images
that float through the air to bring them into homes, schools, and
workplaces. Even apparently realistic forms like the nightly news
routinely employ discourses of ""once upon a time,"" ""happily ever
after,"" and ""a Cinderella story."" In Channeling Wonder: Fairy
Tales on Television, Pauline Greenhill and Jill Terry Rudy offer
contributions that invite readers to consider what happens when
fairy tale, a narrative genre that revels in variation, joins the
flow of television experience. Looking in detail at programs from
Canada, France, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the US, this volume's
twenty-three international contributors demonstrate the wide range
of fairy tales that make their way into televisual forms. The
writers look at fairy-tale adaptations in musicals like Rodgers and
Hammerstein's Cinderella, anthologies like Jim Henson's The
Storyteller, made-for-TV movies like Snow White: A Tale of Terror,
Bluebeard, and the Red Riding Trilogy, and drama serials like Grimm
and Once Upon a Time. Contributors also explore more unexpected
representations in the Carosello commercial series, the children's
show Super Why!, the anime series Revolutionary Girl Utena, and the
live-action dramas Train Man, and Rich Man Poor Woman. In addition,
they consider how elements from familiar tales, including ""Hansel
and Gretel,"" ""Little Red Riding Hood,"" ""Beauty and the Beast,""
""Snow White,"" and ""Cinderella"" appear in the long arc serials
Merlin, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Dollhouse, and in a range of
television formats including variety shows, situation comedies, and
reality TV. Channeling Wonder demonstrates that fairy tales remain
ubiquitous on TV, allowing for variations but still resonating with
the wonder tale's familiarity. Scholars of cultural studies,
fairy-tale studies, folklore, and television studies will enjoy
this first-of-its-kind volume. Contributors Include: Jodi McDavid,
Ian Brodie, Emma Nelson, Ashley Walton, Don Tresca, Jill Terry
Rudy, Patricia Sawin, Christie Barber, Jeana Jorgensen, Brittany
Warman, Kirstian Lezubski, Pauline Greenhill, Steven Kohm,
Kristiana Willsey, Andrea Wright, Shuli Barzilai, Linda J. Lee,
Claudia Schwabe, Rebecca Hay, Christa Baxter, Cristina Bacchilega,
John Rieder, Kendra Magnus-Johnston.
On a Christian mission to redeem slaves in Sudan, a reformed female
gang member Davey is kidnapped and sold into slavery herself. She
uses her former street experiences and talent for leadership to
convince the other slaves to break free and flee to the Ethiopian
border. Everything Davey has ever learned will save her life. Join
Davey's journey as she realizes that it's not where you're from,
but where you're going that matters. Set in Dallas, Khartoum,
Atbarah, and Kassala.
Wilson's approach can be seen as a communal romanticism, dealing
with ordinary people, language, and problems, giving the priority
to the feeling and human dignity over logic, power and money,
putting freedom and equity as a pivotal concern, almost presenting
women and children as victims, and highlighting the importance of
heritage, identity, and culture. As his self-revision message, all
those three plays demonstrate scenes of black self-review, showing
the blacks' part of responsibility in the situation they live in.
It is a project of self-rehabilitation for the blacks. Since
American society is a multicultural spectrum, there is not any
certain legibly ascribed American identity. That is why Wilson does
not submit to the claims of the dominant cultural trend by some
white critics like Brustein. Wilson confidently presents the
blacks' identity typified with self-fulfilment and contribution to
the American culture, as his alternative contributory image of man
against the white dominant models, or the violent black ones.
There is no such thing as a perfect murder....There is always one
element the killer has no control over.
|
You may like...
Oop Sirkel
De Waal Venter
Paperback
R10
Discovery Miles 100
|