The Fairy Tale and Its Uses in Contemporary New Media and Popular Culture

Ever since the beginning of the twenty-first century the fairy tale has not only become a staple of the small and silver screen around the globe it has also migrated into new media overwhelming audiences with imaginative and spectacular retellings along the way. Indeed modern fairy-tale adaptations pervading contemporary popular culture drastically subvert shatter and alter the publics understanding of the classic fairy tale. Because of the phenomenally increasing proliferation of fairy-tale transformations in todays old and new media we must reflect upon the significance of the fairy tale for society and its social uses in a nuanced fashion. How why and for whom have fairy-tale narratives characters and motifs metamorphosed in recent decades? What significant intermedial and intertextual relationships exist nowadays in connection with the fairy tale? This Special Issue features eleven illuminating articles of thirteen scholars in the fields of folklore and fairy-tale studies tackling these and other relevant questions.