Jack Zipes is Professor of German at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Fairy Tales and the Art ofSubversion, Don't Bet on the Prince and CreativeStorytelling, all published by Routledge.

"...[Zipes'] book does make us wonder whether we should be packing our children off to films that have more to do with mass merchandising than mystery and wonder." -- Teacher"An incisive study of fairy tales, ofhow they have been shaped by our culture, and how in turn, our culture has been shaped by them. [Zipes] suggests that the shift from oral to literary traditions helped to institutionalize and commodify fairy tales, and that the film industry has driven this trend to extremes ... it would certainly trigger some stirring classroom debates." -- ChristianLibrary Journal

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Of Cats and Men; Chapter 2 The Rationalization of Abandonment and Abuse in Fairy Tales; Chapter 3 Toward a Theory of the Fairy-Tale Film; Chapter 4 Once Upon a Time beyond Disney; Chapter 5 Lion Kings and the Culture Industry; Chapter 6 Revisiting Benjamin’s “The Storyteller”;

Jack Zipes is Professor of German at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Fairy Tales and the Art ofSubversion, Don't Bet on the Prince and CreativeStorytelling, all published by Routledge.

"...[Zipes'] book does make us wonder whether we should be packing our children off to films that have more to do with mass merchandising than mystery and wonder." -- Teacher"An incisive study of fairy tales, ofhow they have been shaped by our culture, and how in turn, our culture has been shaped by them. [Zipes] suggests that the shift from oral to literary traditions helped to institutionalize and commodify fairy tales, and that the film industry has driven this trend to extremes ... it would certainly trigger some stirring classroom debates." -- ChristianLibrary Journal

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Of Cats and Men; Chapter 2 The Rationalization of Abandonment and Abuse in Fairy Tales; Chapter 3 Toward a Theory of the Fairy-Tale Film; Chapter 4 Once Upon a Time beyond Disney; Chapter 5 Lion Kings and the Culture Industry; Chapter 6 Revisiting Benjamin’s “The Storyteller”;

Jack Zipes is Professor of German at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Fairy Tales and the Art ofSubversion, Don't Bet on the Prince and CreativeStorytelling, all published by Routledge.

"...[Zipes'] book does make us wonder whether we should be packing our children off to films that have more to do with mass merchandising than mystery and wonder." -- Teacher"An incisive study of fairy tales, ofhow they have been shaped by our culture, and how in turn, our culture has been shaped by them. [Zipes] suggests that the shift from oral to literary traditions helped to institutionalize and commodify fairy tales, and that the film industry has driven this trend to extremes ... it would certainly trigger some stirring classroom debates." -- ChristianLibrary Journal

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Of Cats and Men; Chapter 2 The Rationalization of Abandonment and Abuse in Fairy Tales; Chapter 3 Toward a Theory of the Fairy-Tale Film; Chapter 4 Once Upon a Time beyond Disney; Chapter 5 Lion Kings and the Culture Industry; Chapter 6 Revisiting Benjamin’s “The Storyteller”;