Grimm Pictures

Author : Walter Rankin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476604794

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Grimm Pictures by Walter Rankin Pdf

Though Grimm’s Fairy Tales was published about 200 years ago, the revered collection of folk stories remains one of the most iconic pieces of children’s literature and has had significant influence in modern pop culture. This work examines the many ways that recent films have employed archetypal images, themes, symbols, and structural elements that originated in the most well-known Grimm fairy tales. The author draws similarities between the cannibalistic symbolism of the Grimm brothers’ Little Red Cap and the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs and reveals Faustian parallels between Rumpelstiltskin and the 1968 film Rosemary’s Baby. Each of eight chapters reveals a similar pairing, and film stills and illustrations are featured throughout the work.

Author : Adam Gidwitz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101445280

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A Tale Dark & Grimm by Adam Gidwitz Pdf

In this mischievous and utterly original debut, Hansel and Gretel walk out of their own story and into eight other classic Grimm-inspired tales. As readers follow the siblings through a forest brimming with menacing foes, they learn the true story behind (and beyond) the bread crumbs, edible houses, and outwitted witches. Fairy tales have never been more irreverent or subversive as Hansel and Gretel learn to take charge of their destinies and become the clever architects of their own happily ever after.

Author : Walter Rankin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786431748

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Grimm Pictures by Walter Rankin Pdf

Though Grimm's Fairy Tales was published about 200 years ago, the revered collection of folk stories remains one of the most iconic pieces of children's literature and has had significant influence in modern pop culture. This work examines the many ways that recent films have employed archetypal images, themes, symbols, and structural elements that originated in the most well-known Grimm fairy tales. The author draws similarities between the cannibalistic symbolism of the Grimm brothers' Little Red Cap and the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs and reveals Faustian parallels between Rumpelstiltskin and the 1968 film Rosemary's Baby. Each of eight chapters reveals a similar pairing, and film stills and illustrations are featured throughout the work.

Author : Claus Grimm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : UOM:39015015250403

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The Book of Picture Frames by Claus Grimm Pdf

Author : Rhonda V. Wilcox
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476683508

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Grimm's Trailer Full of Secrets by Rhonda V. Wilcox Pdf

NBC's Grimm is an understudied series full of compelling characters, including Monroe, the charmingly knowledgeable vegetarian who looks like a werewolf; Wu, the funny cop who beats his way to the truth; Adalind, the enjoyably vengeful, risk-taking witch; Trubel, the furious young loner accused of insanity; Kelly, a powerful older warrior-woman; Nick, a compassionate detective; Hank, Juliette, Rosalee and others. This book, which includes a chapter on each key figure, explores the fascinating world of characterization in television. The storyline, as well as the dialogue, acting, costumes, scenery, lighting and music, contribute to in-depth depictions that evolve over time. Grimm's figures confound our perceptions of race, age and gender. They demonstrate the ability of TV characters to build unforgettable, meaningful connections.

Author : Daniel Farr,Melanie D. Holm
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476646503

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Grimm Realities by Daniel Farr,Melanie D. Holm Pdf

Through its six-season run, television's Grimm used the extraordinary to illuminate the complexity of the ordinary. Drawing on the Brothers Grimm folklore, the series crafted an enchanted present to illuminate social and ethical challenges facing Western--in particular American--culture at the beginning of the 21st century. This collection of new essays explores Grimm's critique of identity and justice in the modern world contexts of race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, environmentalism, genre and heroism, with a focus on the show's disruptive adaptation of fairy tales and reinterpretation of the police procedural in a fantasy landscape.

Author : Jack Zipes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000448573

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The Brothers Grimm by Jack Zipes Pdf

Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, one of our surest guides through the world of fairy tales and their criticism, takes behind the romantics mythology of the wandering brothers. Bringing to bear his own critical expertise, as well as new biographical information, Zipes examines the interaction between the Grimms' lives and their work. He reveals the Grimms' personal struggle to overcome social prejudice and poverty, as well as their political efforts - as scholars and civil servant - toward unifying the German states. By deftly interweaving the social, political, and personal elements of the lives of the Brothers Grimm, Zipes rescues them from sentimental obscurity. No longer figures in fairy tale, the Brothers Grimm emerge as powerful creators, real men who established the fairy tale as one of our great literary institutions. Part biography, part critical assessment, part social history, the Brothers Grimm provides a complex and very real story about fairy tales and the modern world.

Author : Cay Dollerup
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027299758

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Tales and Translation by Cay Dollerup Pdf

Dealing with the most translated work of German literature, the Tales of the brothers Grimm (1812-1815), this book discusses their history, notably in relation to Denmark and subsequently other nations from 1816 to 1986. The Danish intelligentsia responded enthusiastically to the tales and some were immediately translated into Danish by a nobleman and by the foremost Romantic poet. Their renditions remained in print for a century and embued the tales with high prestige. This book discusses translators, approaches, and other parameters such as copyright, and changes in target audiences. The tales’ social acceptability inspired Hans Christian Andersen to write his celebrated fairytales. Combined, the Grimm and Andersen tales came to constitute the ‘international fairytale’.This genre was born in processes of translation and, today, it is rooted more firmly in the world of translation than in national literatures. This book thus addresses issues of interest to literary, cross-cultural studies and translation.

Author : Brothers Grimm
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473384194

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Grimm's Fairy Tales - Illustrated by Charles Folkard by Brothers Grimm Pdf

This edition of the ‘Grimm’s Fairy Tales – Illustrated by Charles Folkard’ was originally published in 1911, and contains fifty-six of the Brothers Grimm’s classic stories. The narratives include the famed tales of ‘Sleeping Beauty’, ‘Tom Thumb’, ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, ‘Hansel and Gretel’, ‘Cinderella’, ‘The Frog Prince’, and many more. They are all beautifully illustrated by Charles Folkard – in both colour, and black and white. Folkard (1878 – 1963) was a celebrated British illustrator, known for creating ‘Teddy Tail’, a popular cartoon character who rain in the Daily Mail newspapers for decades. He is also renowned for his illustrations for Arabian Nights, Aesop’s Fables, Pinocchio – and of course – the Brothers Grimm. The Brothers Grimm are perhaps the best known folklorists of all time. Die Brüder Grimm; Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors – who together specialized in collecting and publishing folklore during the nineteenth century. The popularity of their collected tales has endured well; they have been translated into more than 100 languages, and remain in print in the present day. This is a text to be appreciated by young and old alike; extraordinary for its literary as well as artistic significance. Pook Press celebrates the great ‘Golden Age of Illustration‘ in children’s literature – a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration from the 1880s to the 1930s. Our collection showcases classic fairy tales, children’s stories, and the work of some of the most celebrated artists, illustrators and authors.

Author : Michael Buckley
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781683351849

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The Sisters Grimm: The Unusual Suspects by Michael Buckley Pdf

A mystery at school leads two fairy-tale detectives to face deadly monsters in the second book of this New York Times–bestselling children’s series. For Sabrina Grimm, living in a community of fairy-tale characters means always being ready for trouble. And something is definitely wrong at her new school. The adults seem too angry, the kids seem too mean, and the gym teacher likes dodgeball way too much. But when Sabrina’s teacher is found dead, dangling in a giant spiderweb, it becomes clear that Ferryport Landing Elementary has a monster problem. Can the Sisters Grimm get to the bottom of this sticky situation? Reissued with new cover art, these anniversary editions of the beloved Sisters Grimm series are the perfect opportunity for old fans to revisit the Grimm family’s adventures and for new readers to discover the magic of the series.

Author : J. Zipes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137098733

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The Brothers Grimm by J. Zipes Pdf

Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, one of our surest guides through the world of fairy tales and their criticism, takes behind the romantics mythology of the wandering brothers. Bringing to bear his own critical expertise, as well as new biographical information, Zipes examines the interaction between the Grimms' lives and their work. He reveals the Grimms' personal struggle to overcome social prejudice and poverty, as well as their political efforts - as scholars and civil servant - toward unifying the German states. By deftly interweaving the social, political, and personal elements of the lives of the Brothers Grimm, Zipes rescues them from sentimental obscurity. No longer figures in fairy tale, the Brothers Grimm emerge as powerful creators, real men who established the fairy tale as one of our great literary institutions. Part biography, part critical assessment, part social history, the Brothers Grimm provides a complex and very real story about fairy tales and the modern world.

Author : Jacob Grimm,Wilhelm Grimm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1900*
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:85058853

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Grimm Brothers' Prettiest Tales by Jacob Grimm,Wilhelm Grimm Pdf

Author : Vernor Vinge
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429915137

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The Tatja Grimm's World by Vernor Vinge Pdf

Multiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge's first full-length novel As a mud-spattered youngster, Tatja quickly realized she was different from the stone-age primitives with whom she grew up. Her insatiable curiosity and thirst for knowledge could not be quenched among them; she had to explore and learn more about the strange world she lived on. She finds the bastion of all culture, arts, entertainment and history for the entire planet, the seven-hundred-year-old science fiction magazine Fantasie, which is produced entirely aboard a gargantuan floating vessel the size of a small city. But despite the printing presses, sail-powered vessels, and mind-expanding technology, Tatja is still dissatisfied. Rising through the ranks, she finds that the people on the enormous barge are just as unintelligent as the primitives she grew up with. But others have come to the planet who not only challenge her intelligence, but offer her a tantalizing opportunity to uncover answers to mysteries that have long plagued her. But with opportunity comes risk. And if she acts unwisely, she could bring doom to the only world she knows. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Perry Nodelman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1990-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820312712

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Words about Pictures by Perry Nodelman Pdf

A pioneering study of a unique narrative form, Words about Pictures examines the special qualities of picture books--books intended to educate or tell stories to young children. Drawing from a number of aesthetic and literary sources, Perry Nodelman explores the ways in which the interplay of the verbal and visual aspects of picture books conveys more narrative information and stimulation than either medium could achieve alone. Moving from "baby" books, alphabet books, and word books to such well-known children's picture books as Nancy Ekholm Burkert's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Gerald McDermott's Arrow to the Sun, Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, and Chris Van Allsburg's The Garden of Abdul Gasazi, Nodelman reveals how picture-book narrative is affected by the exclusively visual information of picture-book design and illustration as well as by the relationships between pictures and their complementary texts.

Author : Titan Books
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781781166536

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Grimm: Aunt Marie's Book of Lore by Titan Books Pdf

THE REAL BOOK OF MONSTERS, WEAPONS AND POTIONS AS SEEN IN THE SHOW! This in-universe book explores the monsters, weapons and potions in Grimm with detailed pictures and descriptions. The book is Aunt Marie's recording of the supernatural creatures she and her fellow Grimms have to defeat! Inspired by the classic Grimm Brothers' fairy tales, Grimm is a cop-drama with a twist! A detective discovers he has the ability to see supernatural beings, including a reformed 'Big Bad Wolf' and the witch-like Hexebiester, along with many others.