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Film and Fairy Tales

The Birth of Modern Fantasy

By: Kristian Moen

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Film and Fairy Tales

The Birth of Modern Fantasy

By: Kristian Moen

Far from a realm of pure fantasy helping people to escape harsh realities, fairy tales and the films that rooted themselves in their tropes and traditions played an integral role in formulating and expressing the anxieties of modernity as well as its potential for radical, magical transformation. In Film and Fairy Tales, Kristian Moen examines the role played by fairy tales in shaping cinema, its culture, and its discourse during its most formative years. Well-established by the feerie of the nineteenth century as popular entertainment and visual spectacle, the wonders of mutability offered by fairy tale fantasies in the early films of Melies situated cinema itself as a realm of enchantment rife with enthralling and disturbing possibilities. Through an analysis of early film theorists and a detailed case study of Tourneur's 1918 film The Blue Bird, Moen shows how the spectacles and tropes of the fairy tale continued to shape ideas of cinema's place in modern life. Stars like Mary Pickford and Marguerite Clark, who not only played fantasy roles but presented their off-screen personae in deliberately fantastic terms, and the transformative claims of modernity expressed through visions such as Orientalist fairylands are analysed to show the extent to which fairy tales were used to negotiate different experiences of modernity - the giddy adventures of social mobility, consumer culture and identity transformation, the threats and anxieties of cultural change, impermanence and mutability. Moen traces the evolution of the fairy tale in film to its self-aestheticising peak in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, alongside ironic allusions in films like Hitchcock's Rebecca and Howard Hawks' Ball of Fire, concluding with an examination of how fairy tale visions of fantastic transformation have seen a resurgence in contemporary cinema, from Tim Burton to Harry Potter. In the process, he shows how cinema made fairy tales modern - and fairy tales helped make cinema what it is today.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857733192

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New York's Animation Culture

Advertising, Art, Design and Film, 1939–1940

By: Kristian Moen

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New York's Animation Culture

Advertising, Art, Design and Film, 1939–1940

By: Kristian Moen

This book reveals and explores the thriving animation culture in midtown Manhattan, the World’s Fair, art galleries and cinemas during a vibrant period of artistic, commercial and industrial activity in New York City. Alongside a detailed investigation of animated film at the time – ranging from the abstract works of Mary Ellen Bute and Norman McLaren to the exhibition practices of the Disney Studios and the New York World’s Fair – New York’s Animation Culture examines a host of other animated forms, including moving dioramas, illuminated billboards, industrial displays, gallery exhibitions, mobile murals, and shop windows. In this innovative microhistory of animation, Moen combines the study of art, culture, design and film to offer a fine-grained account of an especially lively animation culture that was seen as creating new media, expanding the cinema experience, giving expression to utopian dreams of modernity, and presenting dynamic visions of a kinetic future.

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231

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Springer Nature

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3030279316

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9783030279318

Alkaline fens

Valuable wetlands but difficult to manage

By: Nilsson, Kristian

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Alkaline fens

Valuable wetlands but difficult to manage

By: Nilsson, Kristian

Alkaline fens are species rich wetlands that today are threatened. Nature conservation officers and experts of alkaline fens from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden visited alkaline fens in Sweden and Finland to discuss the current situation. Restoration and management can be expensive and there is a need to find more appropriate ways to manage and restore alkaline fens.

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Nordic Council of Ministers

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9289345128

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9789289345125

Live, Die, Buy, Eat

A Cultural History of Animals and Meat

By: Kristian Bjørkdahl,Karen V. Lykke

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Live, Die, Buy, Eat

A Cultural History of Animals and Meat

By: Kristian Bjørkdahl,Karen V. Lykke

Live, Die, Buy, Eat. These words represent a chain of events which today is disconnected. In the past few years, controversies around meat have arisen around industrialization and globalization of meat production, often pivoting around health, environmental issues, and animal welfare. Although meat increasingly figures as a problem, most consumers’ knowledge of animal husbandry and meat production is more absent than ever. Tracing a historical process of alienation along three distinct axes, the authors show how the animal origin of meat is covered up, rationalized, forgotten, excused, neglected, and denied. How is meat produced today, and where? How do we consume meat, and how have our consumption habits changed? Why have these changes occurred, and what are the social and cultural consequences of these changes? Using Norway as a case study, this book examines the dramatic changes in meat production and consumption over the last 150 years. With a wide range of historical sources, together with interviews and observation at farms, slaughterhouses, and production units, as well as analyses of contemporary texts and digital sources, Live, Die, Buy, Eat explores the transformation of animal husbandry, meat production and consumption, together with its cultural consequences. It will appeal to scholars of anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, geography, and history with an interest in food, agriculture, environment, and culture.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317188527

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9781317188520

Film and Fairy Tales

The Birth of Modern Fantasy

By: Kristian Moen

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The Birth of Modern Fantasy

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New York's Animation Culture

Advertising, Art, Design and Film, 1939–1940

By: Kristian Moen

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Advertising, Art, Design and Film, 1939–1940

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Film and Fairy Tales

Film and Fairy Tales

New York's Animation Culture

New York's Animation Culture

Alkaline fens

Alkaline fens

Live, Die, Buy, Eat

Live, Die, Buy, Eat

Film and Fairy Tales

Film and Fairy Tales

New York's Animation Culture

New York's Animation Culture

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