Subgenre: Fairytale

Louise Smith
20th January 2023
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Kubo and the Two Strings. Dir. Travis Knight. Laika. 2016

Kubo and the Two Strings. Dir. Travis Knight. Laika. 2016 https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/paper-bird-wings-2.png 1454 620 Louise Smith Louise Smith https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/994ccb66f6ec7d76b6bd19085150286d?s=96&d=mm&r=g 20th January 2023 6th March 2023

Figure 1: Kubo lifted in the air by wings made of origami birds. Kubo and the Two Strings follows a boy whose life is made even more extraordinary when a…

Eve Bayliss
19th January 2023
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How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Dir. Ron Howard. Universal Pictures.2000.

How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Dir. Ron Howard. Universal Pictures.2000. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/COVER-3.jpg 602 397 Eve Bayliss Eve Bayliss https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/857a2c1bc1d52ca8ed0b1f33f8dc46df?s=96&d=mm&r=g 19th January 2023 19th January 2023

For as much as this film teaches us about the meaning of Christmas, it equally teaches us about the relation humans hold with animals, through both interaction and perception. The…

Beth Goodwin
1st January 2023
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Shrek 2. Dir. Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, Conrad Vernon. DreamWorks Pictures. 2004.

Shrek 2. Dir. Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, Conrad Vernon. DreamWorks Pictures. 2004. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/0_PUSS-IN-BOOTS-2.jpg 615 614 Beth Goodwin Beth Goodwin https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d3c0b8c21336086f08c469d1966bed3f?s=96&d=mm&r=g 1st January 2023 1st January 2023

DreamWorks Pictures reintroduces us to some familiar faces from fairy tales – with a comedic twist! The world of Far Far Away parodies and subverts traditional ideas of what a ‘happily…

Lili Cave
2nd February 2022
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Corpse Bride. Tim Burton. Warner Brothers. 2005.

Corpse Bride. Tim Burton. Warner Brothers. 2005. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/victor-and-emily.jpg 2048 1105 Lili Cave Lili Cave https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8d8a113c9854bcb3fffa423a839a86bb?s=96&d=mm&r=g 2nd February 2022 2nd February 2022

‘In the act of othering, what is projected onto the other is all that must be refused in constructing the identity of the self’[1]. Consequently, establishing a human/animal binary often…