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Made to Connive: Revisioning Cinderella in a Music Video. From Disney to Arthur Pirozkhov: A Case Study

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Filipczak D.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture

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2020

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issue 10

67-78

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The article focuses on the way in which music videos can subvert and refigure the message of literature and film. The author sets out to demonstrate how a music video entitled “Зацепила” by Arthur Pirozkhov (Aleksandr Revva) enters a dialogue with the recent Disney version of Cinderella by Kenneth Branagh (2015), which, in turn, is an attempt to do justice to Perrault’s famous fairy tale. Starting out with Michèle Le Dœuff’s comment on the limitations imposed upon women’s intellectual freedom throughout the centuries, Filipczak applies the French philosopher’s concept of “regulatory myth” to illustrate the impact of fairy tales and their Disney versions on the contemporary construction of femininity. In her analysis of Branagh’s film Filipczak contends that its female protagonist is haunted by the spectre of the Victorian angel in the house which has come back with a vengeance in contemporary times despite Virginia Woolf’s and her followers’ attempts to annihilate it. Paradoxically, the music video, which is still marginalized in academia on account of its popular status, often offers a liberating deconstruction of regulatory myths. In the case in question, it allows the viewers to realize how their intellectual horizon is limited by the very stereotypes that inform the structure of Perrault’s Cinderella. This makes viewers see popular culture in a different light and appreciate the explosive power of music videos which can combine an artistic message with a perceptive commentary on stereotypes masked by seductive glamour.

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Cinderella’s Ashes - New Women, Old Fairytales

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Filimon E. C.

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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2012

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vol. 9

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issue 1

131-137

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This paper brings into focus the feminine qualities that heroines in Western fairy tales possess, as well as the roles they traditionally perform. The heroines are either rewarded or punished in accordance to how well they fit the feminine pattern, while the association of femininity with the female clearly indicates the social impact of gender ideology. Two variations on the Cinderella story will illustrate how feminist revisions of fairytales upset this rigid division.

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Of Grim Witches and Showy Lady-Devils: Wealthy Women in Literature and Film

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Schuchter V.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture

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2019

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issue 9

50-65

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Imagining super rich women in the real and fictional world has long been a struggle. Those few depictions that do exist are scattered across time periods and literary genres, reflecting the legal restrictions that, at different points in time, would not allow women to accumulate assets independent of the patriarchal forces in their lives. The scarcity of extremely wealthy women in literature and film is confirmed by Forbes magazine’s list of the fifteen richest fictional characters that features forty different fictional men and only nine women, with never more than two female characters nominated in a single year. This article explores the depiction of three exceptionally wealthy women: Cruella de Vil in The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956) by Dodie Smith, Miss Havisham in Great Expectations (1861) by Charles Dickens, and the figure of the stepmother in various adaptations of “Cinderella.” I demonstrate how the protagonists’ wealth allows them to manipulate others and disconnect themselves from patriarchal and societal expectations. Further, I argue that these affluent antagonists are “rogued” by their respective narratives, highlighting their perceived anti-feminine and emasculating behaviour resulting in a mode of narration that greedily gazes at and shames their appearances and supposed unattractiveness. While this genealogy of rich rogues reiterates the narrow scope of imagining wealthy women on the page and on the screen, there are moments in the narratives that disrupt stereotypical depictions of these wealthy characters who defy the labels imposed on them.

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Kopciuszek: zagubiony szklany pantofelek i metamorfozy kobiecości

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Gromkowska-Melosik A.

Studia Edukacyjne

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2017

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issue 46

63-72

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The article is devoted to the reconstruction of Cinderella myth in contemporary culture in the relation to the changing concepts of femininity. The Author takes into account several contexts of this issue. First, it can be understood in the terms of life as a lottery thanks to which in one moment a person is famous or rich (e.g. thanks to television success). Also, the author analyses the Cinderella in a light of sociological theory of competitive mobility. Besides sociotherapeutic Cinderella complex is analysed as well as feminist interpretation of Cinderella are reconstructed. The different versions of Cinderella fable are confronted with the various kinds of relations between women and men in contemporary. The Author shows also the examples of using the Cinderella myth in commercial advertising as well as politics and economy (Cinderella industry).

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Das schlesische Aschenputtel als Romanfigur: ein Beitrag zu einer deutsch-polnischen „Doppelbiographie“

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Nowara-Matusik N.

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Historicolitteraria

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2022

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vol. 22

60-73

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The subject of this article is the Polish-German “double biography” of Countess Joanna von Schaffgotsch as portrayed in the novel Zink wird Gold by Georg Zivier and Hans Nowak and in Gustaw Morcinek’s Pokład Joanny. The comparative analysis focuses on the dominant narrative threads and the approaches to represent this historical figure, with the portrayal of the countess as the “Silesian Cinderella” existing as a point of reference in the public consciousness. The analyses conducted in this context lead to the conclusion that Nowak/Zivier’s biography of the countess generally corresponds to historical truth and is realistic in this sense, while the ideological aspect dominates in Morcinek’s narration. The two ‘biographies’ do not take into account the regional specificity of the Countess figure.

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„Archiwum” i „repertuar”. Kłopoty z klasyką w szkole podstawowej

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Rusek M.

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia ad Didacticam Litterarum Polonarum et Linguae Polonae Pertinentia

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2019

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vol. 10

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issue 285

134-143

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The article is dedicated to the issue of reception of literary classics by primary school pupils. The fundamental contemporary reception problem consists in the increasing linguistic and cultural strangeness which hampers, and sometimes even prevents independent reading by pupils. The theoretical reflection concerning the ways of preventing the rejection of the classics, as well as overcoming their strangeness is combined with the analysis of particular cases (Cinderella and its contemporary renarrations, The Barrel Organ by B. Prus, and Revenge by A. Fredro). The conclusions emphasize the importance of hermeneutic activities on the part of the teacher, which should precede and boost the act of reading. These are metaphorically referred to as the “gesture of familiarizing the classics”. The “archive” and “repertoire” metaphors introduced in the title are intended to indicate the direction of changes in the manner of presenting the works from the past. Classics should be perceived not as texts from an archive, but as works from the repertoire which are being prepared for staging, i.e. for (re)reading.

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prepared for staging, i.e. for (re)reading. Key words: literary classics, reading, canon, literary education in the primary school, A. Fredro Zemsta (Revenge), B. Prus Katarynka (The Barrel Organ), Cinderella, renarrations

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2 Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture

1 Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Historicolitteraria

1 Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia ad Didacticam Litterarum Polonarum et Linguae Polonae Pertinentia

1 Romanian Journal of English Studies

1 Studia Edukacyjne

1 Filimon E. C.

1 Filipczak D.

1 Gromkowska-Melosik A.

1 Nowara-Matusik N.

1 Rusek M.

1 Schuchter V.

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