Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Chris Pallant is a Reader in Creative Arts and Industries at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. His publications include Demystifying Disney: A History of Disney Feature Animation (2011), Storyboarding: A Critical History (2015), Animated Landscapes: History, Form and Function (2015) and Animation: Critical and Primary Sources (2021). Chris currently serves as President of the Society for Animation Studies.Christopher Holliday teaches Film Studies and Liberal Arts at King’s College London, UK, specializing in Hollywood cinema, animation history and contemporary digital media. He has published several book chapters and articles on digital technology and computer animation, including work in Animation Practice, Process & Production and animation: an interdisciplinary journal. He is the author of The Computer-Animated Film: Industry, Style and Genre (2018) and co-editor of Fantasy/Animation: Connections Between Media, Mediums and Genres (2018).

This is an incredible edited collection, showcasing meticulous research by all of its outstanding contributors. Featuring chapters that revisit the contextual, technological and aesthetic breakthroughs of Disney’s first fairy tale, and contributions that cover new ground, such as the film’s exhibition, reception and influence in Europe and China, this book is sure to become a major touchstone for scholarly researchers of Disney, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and fairy tale adaptations.

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction – Into the Burning Coals(Christopher Holliday and Chris Pallant)Part 1: Innovation, Technology, and Style Chapter One – From Caligari to Disney: The Legacy of German Expressionist Cinema in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Victoria Mullins)Chapter Two – From Terrible Toreadors to Dwarfs and Princesses: Forging Disney’s Style of Animation (Stéphane Collignon and Ian Friend)Chapter Three – The Depth Deception: Landscape, Technology and the Manipulation of Disney’s Multiplane Camera in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) (Christopher Holliday and Chris Pallant)Chapter Four – Character costume portrayal and the multi-layered process of costume design in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) (Maarit Kalmakurki)Chapter Five – Making it Disney’s Snow White (Amy M. Davis)Part 2: Snow White in Hollywood Chapter Six – With a Smile and a Song: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as the first Integrated Film Musical (Sadeen Elyas)Chapter Seven – Dwarfland: Marketing Disney’s Folly (Pamela O’Brien)Chapter Eight – Framing Snow White: Preservation, Nostalgia and the American Way in the 1930s (Jane Batkin)Chapter Nine – Recasting Snow White: Parodic Animated Homages to the Disney Feature (Terry Lindvall)Part 3: International LegaciesChapter Ten – The Indigenisation of Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) in China: From ‘Snow Sister’ and ‘Dolly Girl’ to Chinese Snow White (1940) and Princess Iron Fan (1941) (Yuanyuan Chen)Chapter Eleven – Unearthing Blanche-Neige: the making of the first made-in-Hollywood French version of Snow White and its critical reception. (Greg Philip and Sébastien Roffat)Chapter Twelve – From Disney to LGBTQ tales: the South-American Snow White in Over the Rainbow: Um Livro de Contos de Fadxs (Priscila Mana Vaz, Thaiane de Oliveira Moreira and Janderson Pereira Toth)Chapter Thirteen – Snow White’s censors: The non-domestic reception and censorship of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with a case study on the Low Countries (Daniël Biltereyst)Chapter Fourteen – Snow White in the Spanish cultural tradition: analysis of the contemporary audiovisual adaptations of the tale (Irene Raya Bravo and María del Mar Rubio-Hernández)Chapter Fifteen – The Adventures of Snow White in Turkish Cinema’ (Zeynep Gültekin Akçay)Index