Resources
A Treasury of Best-Loved Fairy Tales. New York, NY: Fall River Press, 2017.
This is a useful resource for comparing the Disney version to the original Fairy Tale version of many stories. These comparisons make adaptation easy to see and understand.
Andrew, Dudley. "Adapting Cinema to History." A Companion to Literature and Film: 189-204. doi:10.1002/9780470999127.ch13.
I found this to be a useful resource for diving a little deeper into the concept of adaptation.
Brave. Directed by Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman. Performed by Kelly MacDonald.
A movie that features a true hero who changes throughout the course of the story. I will be using this to illustrate stories of the present.
Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.
This is an invaluable resource for exploring the concept of the hero. It offers a lens through which to consider our stories in the unit.
Dean, John. "Adapting History and Literature into Movies." American Studies Journal 53 (August 13, 2009). Accessed June 19, 2018. www.asjournal.org/53-2009/adapting-history-and-literature-into-movies/.
A good resource for general information about adapting material into movies.
Frozen. Directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee. Performed by Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel.
A movie that features two true heroes who changes throughout the course of the story. I will be using this to illustrate stories of the present.
Giannetti, Louis. "Chapter 9." In Understanding Movies, 77-84. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Useful resource for understanding adaptation in depth.
Kawin, Bruce F. How Movies Work. Berkeley, NY: University of California Press, 1992.
A good book about the nuts and bolts of movie making. It helped me better understand how to "read a film".
Moana. Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker. Performed by Auli'i Carvalho and Dwayne Johnson.
A movie that features a true hero who changes throughout the course of the story. I will be using this to illustrate stories of the present.
Mulan. Directed by Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook. Performed by Ming-Na Wen and Eddie Murphy.
A movie that features a true hero who changes throughout the course of the story. Could be used to illustrate stories of the present.
Oh My Disney. "11 Things Every Disney Movie Must Include." Oh My Disney. April 14, 2016. https://ohmy.disney.com/movies/2014/10/31/11-things-every-disney-movie-must-include/.
Useful article that helped me identify frequent devises used in the creation of Disney feature films.
Sleeping Beauty. Directed by Clyde Geronimi. Performed by Mary Costa and Bill Shirley.
This film is an example of a story without a true hero. It fits very much in the "Story from the Past" category.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. By Walt Disney, David Hand, and Perce Pearce.
This film is an example of a story without a true hero. It fits very much in the "Story from the Past" category.
The Little Mermaid. Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker. Performed by Rene Auberjonois and Jodi Benson.
This film is an example of a story without a true hero. It fits very much in the "Story from the Past" category.
The Princess and the Frog. Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker. Performed by Anika Noni Rose and Bruno Campos.
A movie that features two true heroes who change throughout the course of the story. Could be used to illustrate stories of the present.
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