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Do the conventions of traditional fairytales fit in with animated films?
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Do the conventions of traditional fairytales fit in with animated films? The tradition of fairytales goes back to before recorded history, originally designed to educate, fairytales' aim now is to entertain. Fairytales went through two renaissances; the first was the introduction of illustrations to books and the second turning fairytales into to animated film. Walt Disney has been the main contender in bring fairytales to the cinema, starting off with retelling the traditional folktale of Snow White, adding particular characters, like Dopey, to make the films more appealing to the American youth. Walt Disney has remade many fairy tales other than Snow White, including Pinocchio, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast and the Little Mermaid. Vladimir Propp, in his work The Morphology of the Folktale, provides narrative structures for fairytales, which he argues all fairytales fit into. A rough outline of Propp's theory is as followed- fairytales have...
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