Graduation Year
Spring 2012
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
French Studies
Second Department
German Studies
Reader 1
Nathalie Rachlin
Reader 2
Hans Rindisbacher
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© 2012 Mirabelle Korn
Abstract
This thesis examines the adaptation of fairy tales in ten recent French and German films. It looks specifically at narrative structures, representations of magic, portrayals of childhood, and manifestations of good and evil. This thesis asks how and why contemporary French and German filmmakers choose, consciously or not, to update some of the central motifs of fairy tales for a modern audience and what attitudes toward the reconciliation of tradition and modernity those choices express.
Recommended Citation
Korn, Mirabelle, "La Réconciliation de La Tradition et de La Modernité dans L’adaptation Cinématographique Contemporaine du Conte de Fées en France et en Allemagne" (2012). Scripps Senior Theses. 49.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/49
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