[Commlist] New book: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs New Perspectives on Production, Reception, Legacy

We are delighted to announce the publication of */Snow White and the 
Seven Dwarfs: New Perspectives on Production, Reception, Legacy 
/(Bloomsbury, 2021)*, edited by *Chris Pallant (Canterbury Christ Church 
University)* and *Christopher Holliday (King's College London) *as part 
of*Bloomsbury's Animation Key Films/Filmmaker *series. More information 
on the collection can be found at 
https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs-9781501351228/ 
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs-9781501351228/>.

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Walt Disney's/Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs/(David Hand, 1937) 
occupies a central place within the history of global animation. Based 
on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, the film was the first 
feature-length animated film produced by the Disney Studio and served to 
announce the animated cartoon as an industrial art form. Yet Disney's 
landmark version not only set in motion the Golden Age of the Hollywood 
cartoon, but has continued to stand as an international sensation, 
prompting multiple revisions and remakes within a variety of national 
filmmaking contexts. This book explores the enduring qualities that have 
marked/Snow White'/s influence and legacy, providing a collection of 
original chapters that reflect upon its pioneering use of technology and 
contributions to animation's visual style, the film's reception within 
an American context, and its status as a global cultural phenomenon.

*_Part 1: Innovation, Technology, and Style_*
*Chapter One*– From Caligari to Disney: The Legacy of German 
Expressionist Cinema in/Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs/(/Victoria Mullins/)
*Chapter Two*– From Terrible Toreadors to Dwarfs and Princesses: Forging 
Disney's Style of Animation (Stéphane Collignon and Ian Friend)
*Chapter Three*– The Depth Deception: Landscape, Technology and the 
Manipulation of Disney's Multiplane Camera in/Snow White and the Seven 
Dwarfs/(1937) (/Christopher Holliday and Chris Pallant/)
*Chapter Four*– Character costume portrayal and the multi-layered 
process of costume design in/Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs/(1937) 
(/Maarit Kalmakurki/)
*Chapter Five*– Making it Disney's/Snow White///(/Amy M. Davis/)
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_*Part 2:****/Snow White/****in Hollywood*_
*Chapter Six*– With a Smile and a Song:/Snow White and the Seven 
Dwarfs/as the first Integrated Film Musical (/Sadeen Elyas/)
*Chapter Seven*– Dwarfland: Marketing Disney's Folly (/Pamela O'Brien/)
*Chapter Eight*– Framing/Snow White/: Preservation, Nostalgia and the 
American Way in the 1930s (/Jane Batkin/)
*Chapter Nine*– Recasting/Snow White/: Parodic Animated Homages to the 
Disney Feature//(/Terry Lindvall/)

_*Part 3:**//**International Legacies*_*//*
*Chapter Ten*– The Indigenisation of Disney's/Snow White and the Seven 
Dwarfs/(1937) in China: From 'Snow Sister' and 'Dolly Girl' to/Chinese 
Snow White/(1940) and/Princess Iron Fan/(1941) (/Yuanyuan Chen/)
*Chapter Eleven*– Unearthing/Blanche-Neige/: the making of the first 
made-in-Hollywood French version of/Snow White/and its critical 
reception. (/Greg Philip and Sébastien Roffat/)
*Chapter Twelve*– From Disney to LGBTQ tales: the South-American Snow 
White in/Over the Rainbow: Um Livro de Contos de Fadxs/(/Priscila Mana 
Vaz, Thaiane de Oliveira Moreira and Janderson Pereira Toth/)
*Chapter Thirteen**–*/Snow White/'s censors: The non-domestic reception 
and censorship of/Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs/with a case study on 
the Low Countries (/Daniël Biltereyst/)
*Chapter Fourteen**–*/Snow White///in the Spanish cultural tradition: 
analysis of the contemporary audiovisual adaptations of the tale (/Irene 
Raya Bravo and María del Mar Rubio-Hernández/)
*Chapter Fifteen**–*The Adventures of/Snow White///in Turkish 
Cinema/'/(/Zeynep Gültekin Akçay/)

“This is an incredible edited collection, showcasing meticulous research 
by all of its outstanding contributors. Featuring chapters that revisit 
the contextual, technological and aesthetic breakthroughs of Disney's 
first fairy tale, and contributions that cover new ground, such as the 
film's exhibition, reception and influence in Europe and China, this 
book is sure to become a major touchstone for scholarly researchers of 
Disney,/Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs/and fairy tale adaptations.” – 
Tracey Mollet, author of Cartoons in Hard Times: The Animated Shorts of 
Disney and Warner Brothers in Depression and War 1932-1945 (2017)

“A masterful collection of essays that confirms Disney's/Snow White and 
the Seven Dwarfs/as a cultural, technological and artistic landmark that 
features animated characters who, like their best live-action peers, 
have provided an enduring emotional bond with generations of 
moviegoers.” – Eric N. Young, Assistant Professor, Dodge College of Film 
and Media Arts, Chapman University, USA

“A meticulous analysis of one of the most complicated movies in film 
history, this volume places Disney's masterpiece within discussions of 
European art cinema, aesthetic influence, the history of the musical, 
costume design, the Hollywood film as international commodity, and much 
more. Of all the work on this great film, this is the definitive 
edition, by far “the fairest of them all.”” – Eric Smoodin, Professor in 
the Department of American Studies, University of California, Davis, USA

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