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A STUDY GUIDE by Katy Marriner © ATOM 2012 A STUDY GUIDE BY KATY MARRINER http://www.metromagazine.com.au ISBN: 978-1-74295-134-8 http://www.theeducationshop.com.au Re-enchantment is an immersive journey into the hidden meanings of fairy tales. Presented as an interactive multi-platform documentary project, it explores why fairy tales enchant, entertain, fascinate and horrify contemporary adult audiences. Re-enchantment provides users with an experience that is both immersive and interactive. As a creative interpretation of fairy tales, it brings together text, digital video, documentary footage, feature film sequences, advertising, cartooning, photography, animation, artwork, still images and sound. Written and directed by Sarah Gibson and produced by Sue Maslin, Re-enchantment can be accessed online at <http://www.abc.net.au/re-enchantment> SCREEN EDUCATION © ATOM 2012 © ATOM SCREEN EDUCATION Teachers and students can follow Re-enchantment on Facebook at <http://www.facebook.com/ pages/Re-enchantment/125219870872528> and on Twitter at <http://twitter.com/reenchantment>. 2 Fairy tales are always changing and media artists and popular culture • engage imaginatively and critically and adapting; so are interpretations in each story space. The artists’ work with literary texts and multimodal by writers, social historians, can also be sourced in the Gallery. texts to expand the scope of their psychologists and cultural Users can also contribute their own experience; commentators. Re-enchantment re-imaginings of fairy tales to the • to explain and analyse the ways in explores psychological, social, Gallery and express their views about which stories, characters, settings historical and cultural interpretations fairy tales and fairy tale themes in the and experiences are reflected in of fairy tales and fairy tale themes. Forum. particular genres, and discuss the Rather than stripping away the appeal of these genres; mystery and enchantment, Re- Re-enchantment is rated M and is • identify personal ideas, enchantment shows how various recommended for students aged 15 experiences and opinions about interpretations and versions of a and over. Educators are advised to texts and discuss them with story deepen our connection to and preview all sections of the website others; fascination with the richness of fairy prior to using Re-enchantment as a • recognise areas of agreement and tales. curriculum resource. difference, and how to develop and refine their interpretations The fairy tale story spaces offer The activities in this study guide through discussion and argument; detailed examinations of Bluebeard, are designed for use with senior • create their own texts in different Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, secondary students in English forms and genres and for particular Rapunzel, Red Riding Hood and Snow and Literature. Teachers of these audiences. White. The three-minute documentaries subjects are encouraged to use about fairy tale themes each have a Re-enchantment to promote Students may be referred to Re- different question at their core and as contemporary disciplined-based enchantment to support individual such can be watched across a series learning in these subjects. project work in subjects such as of lessons rather than all at once. Dance, Drama, Media, Psychology, Re-enchantment also includes the In completing the tasks, students will Studio Arts, Theatre Studies and re-interpretation of fairy tales by visual have demonstrated the ability to: Visual Communication and Design. WELCOME TO shortcut to the six story spaces in • Your responses to the RE-ENCHANTMENT the forest. There is a drop-down questions and activities in this menu for each story space here study guide can be contributed TIPS FOR EXPLORING THE that provides useful shortcuts to the Gallery and Forum WEBSITE back to particular sections such as pages of the website. In the the stories or a page dealing with Gallery, just use the ‘Create’ Why do fairy stories continue to an issue. The Menu also offers a button to upload your photos, enchant, entertain, fascinate and shortcut to the Gallery or you can artwork, videos or sound horrify contemporary audiences? use the Gallery button on the left- files. Your responses will be hand side of the screen. There are moderated before they are Visit Re-enchantment using the many layers of information within published. following URL <http://www.abc. each page of Re-enchantment. • On any particular page, use the net.au/re-enchantment>. forward and backward arrows The Menu also has some other when they appear, in order to Enter the gateway and explore important features: find more content. You can the forest. Many paths await also use the slide-out panel. you. Along the way you’ll find • ‘Fairy Tale Themes’ is a series Here you can find the narration active links leading you into the of three-minute documentaries, text, quotations that relate to wonder, fascination and horror of exploring the background to the ideas being discussed and well-known fairy tales and their and meanings of common fairy documentary interviews. not-so-well-known meanings. tale motifs. The cursor will change from an • ‘Discuss’ takes you to the If you encounter any problems SCREEN EDUCATION © ATOM 2012 © ATOM SCREEN EDUCATION arrow to a hand everywhere there Re-enchantment forums. whilst exploring Re-enchantment, is an active link. Hints guide you • ‘Source’ provides you hit the reload or refresh button along the way. At any stage you with extensive text-based on your web browser (Explorer, feel lost, consult the Menu, your resources about fairy tales and Safari, Firefox, etc.) to resume your map of the site. Clicking on the bibliographies for particular exploration story symbol in the Menu is your stories. 3 Fairy Tales Fairy tales existed as oral stories - Do you still read fairy tales? of its plot, characters and for thousands of years before Why? language are transferred to they appeared as literature - Share your answers to another form or medium. for children. Many of today’s these questions with the An adaptation alters the fairy tales have evolved from class. Listen to the answers reader’s experience of the centuries-old stories that have expressed by others. original text. appeared, with variations, in • Working as a class, write • Fairy tales are a genre of multiple cultures around the a definition of the term literature. Like all genres of world. Fairy tales, and works fairy tale. You may consult literature, fairy tales tell a derived from fairy tales, are still dictionary definitions to help story in a particular way. written today. you settle on your definition - Return to your list of fairy of the term. When you have tales. Drawing on your The term ‘fairy tale’ is taken from spent time exploring Re- knowledge of the fairy tales the French conte de fées which enchantment, you may want that you have listed, what Charles Perrault popularised in to revise the definition. observations can you make his now famous collection of fairy • Why do fairy tales begin with about the conventions of tales Contes du temps passé ‘Once upon a time’? Why do fairy tales? Divide your (1697). Fairy tales are set in a they end with ‘… and they all observations into the distant imaginary past. They do lived happily ever after’? following sections: not always have fairies, but usually • Would you like a fairy tale • Plot there is magic: enchantments, existence? What would it be • Narrative structure transformations, talking animals like? • Narrative voice and people under spells. • If your own life story was a • Characters fairy tale, what tale would it • Settings Across cultures, fairy tales be? • Themes have been retold and changed - Write your own life story so • Language with each telling. They have far as a fairy tale. Aim to • Symbolic Motifs been collected and written write 500–750 words. down, translated and edited in • How many fairy tales can you Watch ‘Ever After’. ‘Ever After’ ways that have also altered the name? Share your list with a is a three-minute documentary stories. However, folklorists have peer and then with the class. about fairy tales. The identified many common motifs - Drawing on the list of fairy documentary offers information and story types throughout the tale titles, write another list that will support your work on the world. that names films, plays, genre of fairy tales. novels, songs, paintings, Fairy tales are cultural snapshots dance performances, This is one of a series of three- of the lives of men and women, musicals, advertisements minute documentaries that their economic and family etc. that are transformations can be viewed on the Re- circumstances and the conditions or adaptations of fairy tales. enchantment website. They are of childhood. At the same time - A transformation of a also available on DVD. fairy tales reflect our inner lives, text occurs when there our conscious and unconscious is a change in the way a Teachers can purchase the fears and preoccupations, as well text is communicated. A DVD series of 10 x three- as our fantasies and dreams. transformation alters the minute documentaries reader’s experience of the at <http://filmartmedia. • What was your favourite fairy original text. com/?p=1159>. SCREEN EDUCATION © ATOM 2012 © ATOM SCREEN EDUCATION tale when you were a child? - An adaptation of a text Why? occurs when some or all 4 Bluebeard luebeard was a well-known folk tale by the time it first Bappeared in print in Charles Perrault’s 1697 collection of fairy tales. The tale tells the story of a violent nobleman in the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of one wife to avoid the fate of her predecessors. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s ver- sions of the story were titled Fitcher’s Bird and The Robber Bridegroom. Bluebeard is known in Italy as Silver Nose and in England as Mr Fox. The story involves a forbidden chamber and the dire consequences of curiosity and disobedience.
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