The More Than Books Podcast

More Than Books - Library on the Go! Ep. 10: Into the Realm of Fairy Tales: The Journey from Dark to Disney to Darker

Episode Summary

Welcome to the More Than Books Podcast: Library on the Go edition Episode 10! In this episode Jessica, Allison and Guest cohost Emily Sutherland the origins of classic fairy tales and why they were so dark, the Disney era, how a new era of fairy tales has begun, and why we are making them even darker than they were to begin with. Music Attributions: • Intro: o Artist: L’Orchestra Cinematiques, o Writer: Howard Elliott Ashman/ Alan Menken • Outro: Music by Atli Orvarsson

Episode Notes

Authors, Topics, Movies, and TV shows mentioned 

• Disney
• Classic Cinderella
• Disney Cinderella
• Classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• Disney Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• Grimm Brothers
• Guillermo Del Toro
• Angela Carter
• Tim Burton
• Sarah J. Maas
• Hans Christian Anderson
• Little Red Riding Hood
• Classic Sleeping Beauty
• Disney Sleeping Beauty
• Classic Little Mermaid
• Disney Little Mermaid
• Hansel and Gretel
• Charles Darwin
• Iceland
• Elves
• Trolls
• Mexico City
• Mermaids
• Disney Dark Age
• The Great Mouse Detective
• The Rescuers
• The Sword in the Stone
• Black Cauldron
• Tarzan
• Dumbo
• Peter pan
• Aladdin
• The Aristocats
• Pinocchio
• Fantasia
• Bambi
• Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters
• The Lunar Chronicles
• Marissa Meyer
• Ever After
• The Bloody Chamber
• Jeffrey Thomas
• Twisted Princesses
• Nomi Novik
• Uprooted
• Charles Perrault
• Giambattista Basile
• Happily Ever After
• John Howley
• Jackson Pearce
• Sister Red
• Malinda Lo
• Ash
• Sarah Beth Durst
• Ice
• Court of Mist and Fury
• FernGully: The Last Rain forest 
• Don Bluth
• Fairy Tale Theater
• Bernadette Peters
• Christopher Reeves
• Beverly D’Angelo
• Treasure Planet
• Muppets Treasure Island
• Secrets of NIMH
• Anastasia
• The Rough Face Girl
• Rafe Martin
• The Frog Prince Continues
• The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
• Grimm’s Fairy Tales
• Ralph Tedesco
• SyFy Channel
• Tin Man
• Alice
• Neverland
• Cursed
• Marie O’Regan
• Beyond the Woods: Fairy Tales Retold
• Once Upon a time: New Fairy Tales
• Paula Guran
• Hansel & Gretel opera
• Twisted tales series
• Liz Boswell
• Confessions of an ugly stepsister