C LIT243 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Angela Carter, Social Class
15 May 2018
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February 5, 2018
The Guardian’s Three Little Pigs
• Influence of social media
o Originally defended pigs, but suddenly changed to blaming them
o Opinions changed as result of social media influence
Final TV Spot – BigBadCough GSK ad
• Family and pedagogical concern:
o Disturbing; shows grandma as evil wolf
o Wolf-grandma figure
o Frightening to morph head into wolf
o Crude for much younger, non-teen aged audiences
• Environmental concern:
o Wolf in public media to represent evil
▪ Integral part of ecosystem and should not be installing fear
▪ Leads to annihilation of animal that runs from and not to humans
Beauty and the Beast
• Picture
o Disney version not as terrifying
▪ Beast in picture is kind of deformed
▪ Citiues cosideed Dise’s Beast as se
▪ Disney tends to go for mammal rather than reptile as depicted in picture
o Colour
▪ Why is the beast green?
▪ Simpler colours as picture approaches Beauty, darker as it approaches
Beast
o Beauty looks extremely uncomfortable; wanting to leave but not able?
o Beast’s ees – kindness under everything; foreshadow
• Critical considerations:
o Two developmental strategies; deeply entrenched in myth of romantic love even
as its representational energy is channeled into tense moral, economic,
emotional negotiations that complicate courtship rituals
o de Beauot’s coutl Beauty and the Beast reflects desire to transform
fairytales into what Angela Carter has called parables of instruction
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