The Aged Woman as Specter in Two Filmic Adaptations of "Snow White".
This article examines the filmic fairy-tale adaptations Mirror Mirror (2012) and Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) by unpacking the films' depictions of female ageing. The article demonstrates how the films frame the aged woman as a spectral, atemporal figure who resides within the logic of the dis...
| Publicado en: | Marvels & Tales Vol. 32; no. 2; pp. 388 - 406 |
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Wayne State University Press
2018
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