![]() Mirrors have long been part of literary tradition and far from being simple are high concept words. So if the moral and indeed the composition of the tale reflect historic and current cultural and social influences how about the words and concepts within them? For characterization Disney relied on the formula of early movies, which themselves drew from the nineteenth century melodrama: the innocent heroine, the gallant hero, the evil villain, and comic relief in the form of the clown (Zipes, 1999 in Exploring Children’s Literature, 2019). Indeed the version that we all know so well and enjoy would have been modified even further:īecause most of Disney’s sources were short and emblematic, additional material needed to be added to lengthen the plot and sustain interest in the characters. ![]() ![]() …in the 17 different editions they produced between 18 editorial intervention is evident and frequent emendations change the tales to reflect the social and moral values of nineteenth-century and middle-class culture. Just Imagine’s founder Nikki Gamble writes in Exploring Children’s Literature (2019) that The repertoire of stories known has narrowed over time and the Brothers Grimm have exerted a particularly strong influence on this. These ‘folk tales’ are stories ‘of the people’ passed down from generation to generation. ![]() Who hasn’t heard the line immortalised by Disney’s first feature-length cartoon, Snow White (1937)? The medium of film most likely in a small screen DVD format is how many of today’s children will first encounter folk tales and other traditional tales. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all? ![]()
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