Grimm Realities

<p> Through its six-season run television's <I>Grimm</I> 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 <I>Grimm</I>'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. </p>