Last fall, I wrote several articles about fairy tales as an essential part of our cultural inheritance from Christian medieval Europe, stories that teach us about the real world of good and evil ...

Did you know that the Italian Cinderella murdered her stepmother? Or that Sleeping Beauty had twins before marrying the prince? Or that the cats in Italian Puss-in-Boots stories were female? While ...

On Yellowjackets, the question of the supernatural is central. Is it magic or madness? The show asks repeatedly. And, the answer is hard to parse. The introduction’s profane feeling combined with the ...

Currently a features writer at Collider, Elisa Guimarães is an arts and entertainment journalist and a critic with over a decade of experience. Passionate about movies and TV shows as a whole, she ...

Long before Disney turned Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid into global blockbusters, European writers, editors, and folklorists captivated readers with their fairy-tale collections as early ...

University of Reading provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Rapunzel, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty – these well-known stories and others, first published by the Brothers Grimm in Kinder- ...

When Disney produced Snow White and the Dwarfs as its first feature-length animated film, it began a tradition it maybe didn't even know it was starting. The studio became synonymous with retelling ...