Who Killed the Seven Dwarves? :: miscellaneous

Who Killed the Seven Dwarves?Has Disneyfication destroyed the traditional family unit record and damaged childrens illustrated literature?Art & Design BA Hons. exemplarContents3. Introduction4. The Death of the Seven Dwarves5. Folk Tales6. Rant 17. Input Laurence Anholt writes...8. Beauty and the Beast9. Cartoons, Capitalism, Commerce and Conjecture13. Walter Elias Disney18. Forum21. I Relent22. Sycophant24. Rant 226. Tex Avery27. Cutting Edge and modern-day with Typographical Twists31. Conclusion33. Bibliography / ReferenceIntroductionHaving decided to produce a childrens book as part of my Degree course, I ab initio considered writing a contemporary version of one of the old kinsperson or hassock rumors, possibly a story by Hans Christian Andersen or a write up collected by the Brothers Grimm. I change my selections and decided tentatively on a reworking of the classic folk tale Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. I immediately tried to uncontaminating all thoughts of Happ y, Dopey, Sneezey, Bashful, Sleepy, Grumpy and doc, only when this proved harder than expected. How do you go about renaming, individualising and illustrating characters that are so firmly ensconced in the memories of children all over the world? Disneys monopolising of the fairy/folk tale genre and mass marketing of the characters as toys appeared to encumber my options of adapting the Snow White story to...a. Mocking the Disney version in the tale itself.orb. Radically departing from the original story and imagery....both of which seemed quite appealing.I in the end decided on a subtle combination of both options, but resolved to look further into Disneys domination and desecration of folk tales, myths, fables and classic childrens literature.The Death of the Seven DwarfsOn a luxuriously plain between Brugg and Waldshut, near the Black Forest, seven dwarfs lived together in a small house. Late one evening an attractive green peasant girl, who was lost and hungry, approached t hem and requested shelter for the night. The dwarfs had only seven beds, and they cut back to arguing with one another, for each one wanted to give up his bed for the girl. Finally the oldest one took the girl into his bed. Before they could fall hibernating(prenominal) a peasant woman appeared before their house, knocked on the door, and asked to be permit inside. The girl got up immediately and told the woman that the dwarfs had only seven beds, and that at that place was no room there for anyone else. With this the woman became very angry and accuse the girl of being a slut, thinking that she was cohabiting with all seven men.