ENG 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Brothers Grimm, List Of Sovereign States By Suicide Rate

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 222
• Professor: Sarah Henstra

Document Summary

Lecture 6 walt disney and the little mermaid. Illustration modifies text: specifies characters, setting, actively interpreting events, contributing to values/bias. Universal influence (in us disney is watched more than any other genre) The change in fairy-tales as european oral-culture to high class entertainment. Modeled a youthful innovation (young protagonists adventure: old people are often the evil characters. Disney also is a mirror of our technological innovations (technicolor: using all the new innovations in his later works. The innovation of music in film and fairy-tale. Innovation of the helping animal gang (comic relief) to sooth visual action/confrontation between good and evil: now these innovations have become popular in the fairy-tale tradition because of disney. Sanitizes fairy-tales to make them pretty (making them superficial: but many other variants cleaned up earlier versions of fairy tales. Ex: grimm brothers cleaned up and revised to mirror the priorities of the culture at the time. Exactly like disney mirrors our current culture.