Author Theresa Bane, a professional vampirologist and author of the Encyclopedia of Vampire Mythology (McFarland, 2010) and Encyclopedia of Demons in World Religions (McFarland, 2012), has included a ...lengthy twenty-seven-page bibliography of both classic works on myths and the supernatural like James Frazer's Golden Bough (1922); juvenile books like Jean Fritz's The Good Giants and the Bad Pukwudgies (1982); contemporary books like Arrowsmith's Field Guide to the Little People: A Curious Journey into the Hidden Realm of Eves, Faeries, Hobgoblins, and Other Not-So-Mythical Creatures (2009); and actual tales like Hans Christian Andersen's Tales and Fairy Stories (1893).
...anothSr gay creator, director Rob Marshall, sprinkles fairy ^ust on the timeless tale of Ariel, Eric, and Ursula The Little Mermaid has always been for the gays. Halle Bailey, this generation's ...Ariel, and Melissa McCarthy, who takes on the role of the larger-than-life, villainous diva and sea witch Ursula. After the casting of its Black lead, online trolls fomented a racist backlash and threw vitriol at Bailey, a pop singer and an alum of Freeform's popular young adult series Grown-ish. ...who could forget her gender-bending SNL performance as former White House press secretary Sean Spicer?) "The fact that she has had that history in drag herself playing characters in drag shows, she understands where it comes from," Marshall says of McCarthy.
This park is central Gallagher, Mary Campbell
Commonweal,
04/1994, Letnik:
121, Številka:
8
Magazine Article
New York City's Central Park remains one of the city's most enduring and beautiful attractions. A frequent visitor describes several of its glories, including the Bethesda Fountain and the view of ...the city's skyline from the park.
Past Present Cravens, Gwyneth
The Nation (New York, N.Y.),
05/1992, Letnik:
254, Številka:
18
Magazine Article
Comparisons between Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Little Mermaid" and the Disney movie re-enactment of it are discussed. Unlike the ending to the movie, the little mermaid never gains the love ...of the prince, who remains content with counterfeit and ever oblivious to his silent friend's remarkable origins and her role as his rescuer.
...transformation is the magic that is built into the fairy tale" (7). ...the general population is aware of "The Little Mermaid's" narrative because it has been integrated into the children's ...literary canon. Japanese children too are familiar with "Ghibli's hand-drawn, ever-changing animation that values nature as part of a feminized, cooperative world" (57). ...children are able to find pleasure in these adaptations. Human nature, even under the best intentions, results in constant "bad deeds." ...there is the implication that the Little Mermaid may in fact never be redeemed and ascend into heaven.
