The following are a selection of fairy tale resources grouped by category.  Though by no means comprehensive, these titles highlight some of the primary resources in fairy tale studies.


Blogs
SurLaLune Fairy Tales Blog
Once Upon a Blog: Fairy Tale News
Once Upon a Here and Now
Folk and Fairy
Breezes from Wonderland
The Faery Folklorist
Saints and Spinners: A Fairy Tale Blog
Youth in Motion

Books
The Sisters Grimm (book series):  Michael Buckley writes of two sister detectives who live
with their Grandmother Grimm and find they are descendants of the Brothers Grimm.  The series features the fairy-tale detectives fighting a giant loose in the town, having Snow White as an elementary teacher, and saving the Big Bad Wolf.
Francesca Lia Block’s The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold (2000) and Weetzie Bat (1989):
 
The Rose and the Beast revisits and reinvents nine fairy tales with modern day settings and heroines.  Both texts are reminiscent of what critic’s call Block’s “pop” fairy tale genre.  See Francesca Block’s website to see her latest work in myth, legend, and fairy tales.
Weetzie Bat is the first book
in Block’s Dangerous Angels Series and follows the urban adventures of Weetzie and her best friend Dirk through a dream-like L.A. (the novel also won the Phoenix Award in 2009). 

The Bloody Chamber (1979): Angela Carter’s collection of short fiction contains ten stories closely b
ased upon fairy tales or folk tales and won the Cheltenham Prize for Literature the same year it was published.  Shortly before publishing The Bloody Chamber, Carter translated The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault in 1977 followed by Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales in 1982.  She was also listed as 10th in the The Times’ “50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945” in 2008.  
Transformations (1971): Pulitzer-winning poet, Anne Se
xton, retells seventeen Grimms’ fairy tales including “Snow White,” “Rapunzel,” and “Little Red Riding Hood.”  Known for her confessional verse, Sexton’s “transformations” are just as personal as her previous collections while also openly reminding us about the dark side of the Grimms’ tales.

My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales (2010): Edited by Kate Bernheimer, this newly published
collection includes contributions by Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, and Joyce Carol Oates amongst over thirty other contemporary authors.  Inspired by classic tales, the collection is touted as imaginative, spooky, thrilling, shocking: “a book of brilliant dreams and dazzling nightmares.”
Graphic Novels
Fables: Legends in Exile: Bill Willingham’s comic
book series, first published in 2002 by DC Comics Vertigo imprint, creates characters called “Fables” who form a secret community in New York called “Fabletown” after having been exiled from the lands of legends and lore.  Featured characters include The Big Bad Wolf (“Bigby”), Snow White, Prince Charming, and many other public domain characters throughout literature, folklore and mythology.

Recent Films
(the following are recent films based on fairy tales or fairy tale themes)

Jack the Giant Killer (2012)
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
Untitled Snow White (2012)
Puss in Boots (2011)
Beastly (2011)
Red Riding Hood (2011)
Tangled (2010)
Bluebeard (2010)
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty (2009)
The Princess and the Frog (2009)
Another Cinderella Story (2008)
Enchanted (2007)
The Little Matchgirl (2006)
Happily N’Ever After (2006, Happily N’Ever After 2, 2009)
The Brothers Grimm (2005)
Hoodwinked (2005, Hoodwinked, Too! 2011)

--For more films see Wikipedia’s page:
Films Based on Fairy Tales

Scholarship
Jack Zipes is one of the  preeminent scholars in fairy tale and folklore studies.  Don’t Bet on the Prince, The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood, and The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World are among his numerous landmark studies on this subject of the cultural evolution and significance of fairy tales and their function within society.  He has also translated the complete fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm.

Bruno Bettleheim was a prolific writer and renowned child psychologist.  The Uses of Enchantment (1976), a Freudian analysis of fairy tales, won the Critic’s Choice Prize for criticism in 1976 and the National Book Award for Contemporary Thought in 1977.  The Uses of Enchantment explores the emotional and symbolic nature of fairy tales and focuses on the importance of their sometimes dark nature to children’s psycho-social development.

Marie-Louise von Franz, also a renowned writer and Jungian psychologist, has written extensively on the fairy tale.  Her substantial contributions to fairy tale studies include  The Interpretation of Fairy Tales, Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales, and The Feminine in Fairy Tales.  Much of her work explores the themes and characters of fairy tales via archetypal psychology.  She also founded the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich.

Television
Once Upon a Time: a new tv series on ABC loosely based on classic fairy tales but set in the present day.  The show stars Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan and includes numerous fairy tale characters such as Jiminy Cricket, Snow White, and Rumplestiltskin.

Grimm: a new tv series on NBC promoted as a “dark fantasy” where a homicide detective, (a descendant of the Grimms), fights to save the world from the dark, fantastical creatures inspired by classic Grimms fairy tales.

Neverland: a 2011 miniseries aired by Syfy and promoted as a prequel to and fantastical retelling of Barrie’s Peter Pan story.   

Text Resources
SurLaLune Fairy Tales
Search the Baldwin Libraries Digital Collections
UPitt’s collection of Grimms’s Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Anderson’s Tales
More Grimms Tales
The Little Red Riding Hood Project
Jack and Beanstalk/Jack the Giant Killer Project
The Cinderella Project
Cinderella Stories: Versions of the Popular Tale
Fractured Fairy Tales

YouTube Clips
The Snow Queen
The Little Match Girl
Grimms Fairy Tale Classics
The Brave Tin Soldier
Mickey and Minnie: Hansel and Gretel
Fractured Fairy Tales: Hansel and Gretel
Disney Tribute to Anderson



 

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