Snow, Glass, Apples
Wednesday, 08 September, 2004
Neil has put up a link to a photographic interpretation of his Snow White retelling, “Snow, Glass, Apples”. I then thought briefly about blogging something about rewriting fairy tales (or fairy tales in general and my obsession with them) but at the moment I cannot organise my thoughts into any sort of coherence on the subject so it will have to wait, germinating in the darkness in the back of my head, for another time. But do have a look at the site—I believe it does the story justice (and the story is quite a horrible one; people really seem to have it in for Snow White. Perhaps the Disney version had something to do with it.)
Current:
Bible: Isaiah (ESV) 28/09/2010
seen: Tropic Thunder 26/09/2010
seen: The Life of Mammals 24/09/2010
seen: What a Girl Wants 19/09/2010
seen: Jerry Maguire 19/09/2010
seen: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 06/09/2010
seen: Tomorrow Never Dies 05/09/2010
seen: Nanny McPhee 28/08/2010
read: Mercury (Hope Larson) 27/08/2010
read: Spellcheckers Vol 1 (Jamie S Rich, Nicolas Hitori de, Joelle Jones) 16/08/2010
read: Solipsistic Pop Vol 2 (Solipsistic Pop) 16/08/2010
read: Chiggers (Hope Larson) 15/08/2010
seen: Josie and the Pussycats 14/08/2010
seen: Mr & Mrs Smith 14/08/2010
seen: Step Up 2 13/08/2010
Blinks:
How to recalibrate the home button on your iPhone.
Unsolicited manuscripts accepted by Pan Macmillan with certain conditions.
Thought Balloon is a group blog in which the writers tackle a new theme every week? month? with one-page scripts. This URL is for their Phonogram ones.
How to sew a zipper on a knitted garment.
Issues organised by tale.
Online magazine that publishes fairy tales that are not reworkings of old tales.
Journal that publishes fairy tale writing.
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You’ve inspired me - I was struggling to think of what to blog, but now I think I’ll put up my Year 11 rewriting of Rapunzel as a feminist story of escaping the masculine patriarchy. Awkward puns and obvious literary device usage abounds.
Last year I bought a Routledge edition of Complete Brothers Grimm fairy tales - paperback, with a delicious purple matte cover. Some of the stories are WIERD.
Is that the edition edited by Jack Zipes? He charts the editing process that the Grimm brothers took—how various “unsavoury” elements were eventually edited out or transformed to be more Christianised.
I really must blog more on this subject later.
Or even WEIRD, Deb.
(/pedant)
Oh Benjanim, do be quite.