First
of all I will confess that I DO NOT READ as much as I should and if
ever there was a campaign that I would launch it would be entitled:
'READ MORE BOOKS'
Second confession is that there is nothing I hate more than reading INTRODUCTIONS. They tend to give it all away before you can even get in to it.
So I wont delve any further in to that. Lets just get it on.
The
best day of my *studying* university life was during my ROMANTICISM
lecture.. this is where Professor G* announced that we could pick our
own research topics, *but that wasn't the exciting part*
HERE IT IS!!!!
One of the possible topics was FAIRY TALES! I repeat one of the possible topics was FAIRY TALES.
I
have never smelt library books so fast.I took it back to the basics
(Where do Fairy Tales originate from?....) That is where I met the Grimm Brothers and
they introduced me to the art of collecting German Folktales, I
introduced them to Shrek and the conversation has never stopped.The shocking thing I learnt was that the original fairy
tales were not appropriate for children, they were sexy, sometimes
perverse and very violent with some horrific endings. They got me that A and I will be using them again and more in depth for my dissertation next year.
I have since gone on to study two Fairy Tale modules. The current one is entitled FAIRY TALES IN THE MODERN WORLD.
This puts things in to relevant perspective, so how fairy tales are delivered now. You know Disney Movies,Operas,Perfume Ads,Art, Photography, Animations, Sundance Film Festival Adaptations....
Here is one of my favourite fairy tale character adaptations delivered by Chanel and one that we watched earlier during an Approaches to Fairy Tales Lecture. Inspired by Little Red Riding Hood.
Photos by Israeli Shlomi Nissim
This puts things in to relevant perspective, so how fairy tales are delivered now. You know Disney Movies,Operas,Perfume Ads,Art, Photography, Animations, Sundance Film Festival Adaptations....
Here is one of my favourite fairy tale character adaptations delivered by Chanel and one that we watched earlier during an Approaches to Fairy Tales Lecture. Inspired by Little Red Riding Hood.
Below are a couple of beautiful photographs I found also inspired by little red riding hood taken by an obviously talented photographer - Israeli Shlomi Nissim
