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.
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