Keywords
female models
20th century
cinematographic adaptation
fairy tales
cultural imagery
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Abstract
This article offers a reflection about using the Fairy Tales as an historic document. It talks about how the of story, and the society that write it, in order to analyze moral role when themes like vice and virtue in individuals appeared. This type of story telling is contrast with the respective North American Cinderella cinematographic adaptation to show how the vice and virtue theme is display in the female models from four cinematographic shorts and six full length movies from the USA dated from 1936 to 2007.This research looks forward to present the relationship between filmic adaptation with the written tradition version of the story, and the transformation that the image of women in the 20th Century has undergo from the Cinderella character.
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