Fairy tale interrupted

Allison Craven is a Senior Lecturer in English and Screen Studies at James Cook University, North Queensland, Australia. She has published on Disney media, Australian cinema and children’s literature in education. She is also the author of Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema, forthcoming.

• Introduction: Enchanted Rivals: Feminism, Fairy Tale and Wonder Cinema – Part 1: Retelling Beauty and the Beast in the 1990s – Fairy Tale Interrupted; or How Disney’s Beast became Beauty – Disney Business and the Rose Taboo – For the Boys: Remembering Cupid, and the Crisis of Masculinity – Redux Beauty and the Belles: Feminism and Femininity in Disneyland – Part 2: Arcade – The Croaking: Enchanted Heroines and Post-feminism – Patriarchy Dreaming: Imagining Masculinity in the Second Wave – Beauty and the Myth; or Goddesses and Father Giants – Facing the Sphinx, Leaving the Princess – Part 3: Aftermath, After Party; or the Return of the Unrepressed – Transformational: Pastiche and the Princess – Fairy Tales Alive: Reliving Wonder in Disney’s Live-Action Remakes – Calling All Princesses and Forest Warriors: Empowerment, Inheritance and Masculinity in Post-Feminist Wonder – Conclusion: (Not) Out of the Woods – Filmography – Works Cited – Acknowledgements – Notes