FIRST CLASS: 1/19/2010

Today’s Class: 

Introductions:  Instructor & Graduate TAs

Announcements & Disclaimers

WARNING!!! Do not take class if you do not want to look at Disney FT critically = not "just as entertainment"

Student Information Forms (collect)

Lecture: Introduction to the Course Material. The Fairy Tale as Historical Product of Its Time & Culture

FT will be studied in historical context = specific readings rather than as "universal archetypes".

Snow White as Example of how Different Cultures Stress Different Values:

1. Grimms’ Snow White: ending
2. Film Clip: Disney’s Snow White (ending]
3. East German, Cold War fairy tale that wishes to portray the aristocracy as evil and dispel the illusion of fantasy: DEFA Snow White (rescuee)
4. Snow White: Tales of Terror (opening scene with wolves)]