“Cinderella” is generally regarded as the most-loved and best known fairy tale, with around 700 documented versions. We will be looking at some of these versions – in folk tale anthologies as well as in recent films – in order to try and discover why this cross-cultural narrative continues to fascinate readers/spectators in contemporary re-tellings of this particular story.
Anthologized stories will be made available as part of this seminar's online course materials.
FILM TEXTS:
Cinderella (Walt Disney, USA 1950)
Bend it Like Beckham (dir. Gurinder Chadha, UK 2002)
Run, Milkha, Run (dir. R. O. Mehra, India 2013)
Cinderella (dir. Kenneth Branagh, UK 2015) |
