Abstract

RODRIGUEZ MARROQUIN, Angela María. Once upon a time there where too many Cinderellas: How to read the female model from the 20th Century taken from Cinderella movies made in North America. Mem. Soc. [online]. 2012, vol.16, n.33, pp.84-98. ISSN 0122-5197.

This article offers a reflection about using the Fairy Tales as an historic document. It talks about how the of story, and the society that write it, in order to analyze moral role when themes like vice and virtue in individuals appeared. This type of story telling is contrast with the respective North American Cinderella cinematographic adaptation to show how the vice and virtue theme is display in the female models from four cinematographic shorts and six full length movies from the USA dated from 1936 to 2007. This research looks forward to present the relationship between filmic adaptation with the written tradition version of the story, and the transformation that the image of women in the 20th Century has undergo from the Cinderella character.

Keywords : Cinderella; female models; 20th century; cinematographic adaptation; fairy tales; cultural imagery; Cinderella; fairy tales; cultural aspects; film adaptation; literature; adaptations; femininity in literature; XX century.

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