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humanities The Fairy Tale and Its Uses in Contemporary New Media and Popular Culture Edited by Claudia Schwabe Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Humanities www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities Claudia Schwabe (Ed.) The Fairy Tale and Its Uses in Contemporary New Media and Popular Culture This book is a reprint of the Special Issue that appeared in the online, open access journal, Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787) in 2016, available at: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/fairy_tales Guest Editor Claudia Schwabe Assistant Professor, Department of Languages, Utah State University, USA Editorial Office MDPI AG St. Alban-Anlage 66 Basel, Switzerland Publisher Shu-Kun Lin Assistant Editor Jie Gu 1. Edition 2016 MDPI • Basel • Beijing • Wuhan • Barcelona • Belgrade ISBN 978-3-03842-300-3 (Hbk) ISBN 978-3-03842-301-0 (electronic) Articles in this volume are Open Access and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY), which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. The book taken as a whole is © 2016 MDPI, Basel, Switzerland, distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons by Attribution (CC BY-NC-ND) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Table of Contents List of Contributors ......................................................................................................... VII Claudia Schwabe The Fairy Tale and Its Uses in Contemporary New Media and Popular Culture Introduction Reprinted from: Humanities 2016, 5(4), 81 http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/5/4/81 .......................................................................... 1 Jane Orton Himalayan Folklore and the Fairy Tale Genre Reprinted from: Humanities 2016, 5(3), 50 http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/5/3/50 .......................................................................... 8 Kylie Schroeder “After Ever After”: Social Commentary through a Satiric Disney Parody for the Digital Age Reprinted from: Humanities 2016, 5(3), 63 http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/5/3/63 ........................................................................ 19 Kristiana Willsey “All That Was Lost Is Revealed”: Motifs and Moral Ambiguity in Over the Garden Wall Reprinted from: Humanities 2016, 5(3), 51 http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/5/3/51 ........................................................................ 39 Jill Terry Rudy and Jarom Lyle McDonald Baba Yaga, Monsters of the Week, and Pop Culture’s Formation of Wonder and Families through Monstrosity Reprinted from: Humanities 2016, 5(2), 40 http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/5/2/40 ........................................................................ 54 III Sara Cleto and Erin Kathleen Bahl Becoming the Labyrinth: Negotiating Magical Space and Identity in Puella Magi Madoka Magica Reprinted from: Humanities 2016, 5(2), 20 http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/5/2/20 ........................................................................ 79 Brittany Warman “I Am the Wolf: Queering ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and ‘Snow White and Rose Red’ in the Television Show Once Upon a Time” Reprinted from: Humanities 2016, 5(2), 41 http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/5/2/41 ........................................................................ 98 Julianna Lindsay The Magic and Science of Grimm: A Television Fairy Tale for Modern Americans Reprinted from: Humanities 2016, 5(2), 34 http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/5/2/34 ...................................................................... 114 Anne Kustritz “They All Lived Happily Ever After. Obviously.”: Realism and Utopia in Game of Thrones-Based Alternate Universe Fairy Tale Fan Fiction Reprinted from: Humanities 2016, 5(2), 43 http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/5/2/43 ...................................................................... 124 Preston Wittwer Don Draper Thinks Your Ad Is Cliché: Fairy Tale Iconography in TV Commercials Reprinted from: Humanities 2016, 5(2), 29 http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/5/2/29 ...................................................................... 148 Savannah Blitch Between Earth and Sky: Transcendence, Reality, and the Fairy Tale in Pan’s Labyrinth Reprinted from: Humanities 2016, 5(2), 33 http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/5/2/33 ...................................................................... 171 IV Jason Marc Harris We All Live in Fabletown: Bill Willingham’s Fables—A Fairy-Tale Epic for the 21st Century Reprinted from: Humanities 2016, 5(2), 32 http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/5/2/32 ...................................................................... 180 V List of Contributors Erin Kathleen Bahl is a doctoral candidate in the English department at the Ohio State University studying digital media, composition, and folklore. Her research investigates the possibilities that new media and digital technologies offer for creating knowledge and telling stories. She is currently working on a dissertation exploring the relationship between technology, invention, and design in composing new media scholarship. Her work has been published in Computers and Composition, Composition Studies, Humanities Journal, Harlot of the Arts, and Showcasing the Best of CIWIC/DMAC, with forthcoming work in Signs and Media, Computers and Composition Online, and Computers and Composition Digital Press. Savannah Blitch is currently completing her final year of study towards a Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature. She has had poetry published in the local magazines Lux and Four Chambers and recently presented a paper at the 2016 Annual American Folklore Society conference in Long Beach. Sara Cleto is a doctoral candidate at the Ohio State University, where she studies folklore, literature, and the places where they intersect. Her areas of specialization include fairy-tale studies, folk narrative, nineteenth-century literature, and disability theory, and she is currently working on a dissertation that explores representations of disability in nineteenth-century fairy-tales and fantastic literature. Her scholarly and creative work can be found in Humanities Journal, Louise Pound: A Folklore and Literature Miscellany, Supernatural Studies, Faerie Magazine, Goblin Fruit, and others. Jason Marc Harris is an Instructional Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX and teaches creative writing, folklore, and literature. He has a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Washington and an MFA in fiction from Bowling Green State University, where he served as Fiction Editor of Mid-American Review. His books include Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction and (with Birke Duncan) The Troll Tale and Other Scary Stories, and Laugh Without Guilt: A Clean Joke Book; and fiction in Every Day Fiction, Masque and Spectacle, Cheap Pop, Arroyo Literary Review, Psychopomp Magazine, and Midwestern Gothic. http://www.jasonmarcharris.com/ Anne Kustritz is an Assistant Professor in Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University. Her scholarship focuses on fan communities, transformative works, and digital economies. Her teaching specializes in sexuality, gender, media ethnography, and convergence. Her articles appear in Camera Obscura, Feminist Media Studies, and The Journal of American Culture. She serves on the editorial board of the journal Transformative Works and Cultures, an open-source, VII peer-reviewed on-line academic journal affiliated with the non-profit Organization for Transformative Works which seeks to offer fans legal, social, and technological resources to organize, preserve their history, and promote the legality of transformative works. Julianna Lindsay is from Las Vegas, Nevada. Her academic background is in English literature, history, anthropology, archaeology, and heritage studies, receiving her doctorate in heritage studies in 2015. She enjoys researching nostalgia, culture, and the ways in which these pop into modern activities with a pointed interest in American culture and 1980s childhood nostalgia. Lindsay currently works for the Texas Historical Commission as a site educator and interpreter. She currently resides with one husband, plants of average size, and one black cat of unusual size, Belfry. Jarom McDonald is an independent scholar who specializes in algorithmic media analysis. Recent projects have given him the opportunity to look at data-driven narratives and social television engagement. In his spare time, he works as the chief technology officer of a streaming media company. Jane Orton has degrees from Durham, Oxford and Edinburgh Universities (with a supervisory period at the University of Bologna) in Politics, Himalayan Studies, Classics and Philosophy. Her work takes her to the Indian Himalayas, where she researches local folklore and records traditional Himalayan music. Dr. Orton also has an interest in the folklore surrounding how to gain entry into the world’s most exclusive night clubs. Jill Terry Rudy, Associate Professor of English, Brigham Young University, researches the history of American folklore scholarship, fairy tale and folk narratives, intermediality, family folklore, and foodways. She teaches folklore courses as well as a Late Summer Honors, senior seminar, and graduate seminar on fairy tales and media. She has published in College English, Journal of American Folklore, and other folklore journals. She edited The Marrow of Human Experience: