Who Killed the Seven Dwarves? :: miscellaneous

Who Killed the Seven Dwarves?Has Disneyfication destroyed the traditional kinscommon people tale and damaged childrens illustrated literature?Art & Design BA Hons. ILLUSTRATIONContents3. knowledgeability4. The Death of the Seven Dwarves5. Folk Tales6. mouth off 17. Input Laurence Anholt writes...8. Beauty and the Beast9. Cartoons, Capitalism, Commerce and Conjecture13. Walter Elias Disney18. Forum21. I Relent22. Sycophant24. Rant 226. Tex Avery27. Cutting Edge and Contemporary with Typographical Twists31. Conclusion33. Bibliography / ReferenceIntroductionHaving decided to produce a childrens book as blow up of my Degree course, I initially considered writing a contemporary version of one of the old folk or fairy tales, possibly a trading floor by Hans Christian Andersen or a tale collected by the Brothers Grimm. I narrowed my selections and decided tentatively on a reworking of the classic folk tale Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. I immediately tried to blank all thoughts of H appy, Dopey, Sneezey, Bashful, Sleepy, Grumpy and medical student, but this proved harder than expected. How do you go about renaming, individualising and illustrating characters that are so firmly ensconced in the memories of children all over the world? Disneys monopolising of the fairy/folk tale genre and mass marketing of the characters as toys appeared to limit my options of adapting the Snow White story to...a. Mocking the Disney version in the tale itself.orb. radically departing from the original story and imagery....both of which seemed quite appealing.I finally decided on a subtle combination of both options, but resolved to look get on into Disneys domination and desecration of folk tales, myths, fables and classic childrens literature.The Death of the Seven DwarfsOn a high plain between Brugg and Waldshut, near the sullen Forest, seven dwarfs lived together in a small house. Late one evening an attractive young peasant girl, who was lost and hungry, approached them an d requested shelter for the night. The dwarfs had tho seven beds, and they fell to arguing with one another, for each one wanted to give up his bed for the girl. Finally the oldest one took the girl into his bed. Before they could smoothen asleep a peasant woman appeared before their house, knocked on the door, and asked to be let inside. The girl got up immediately and told the woman that the dwarfs had only seven beds, and that on that point was no room there for anyone else. With this the woman became very angry and accused the girl of being a slut, thinking that she was cohabiting with all seven men.