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Kel
Unregistered User
(2/25/05 7:10 pm)
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Your favorite illustrations of and essays on Snow White?
I'm going to be competing in set design with other high school students, and have decided to do one for Snow White. I've been searching through my fairytale books for different essays and variations of the story, and illustrations to get ideas on how I would like to design the set and to get the Disney images out of my mind. So I was wondering what your favorite essays, illustrations, or anything else to do with the story are.
Thanks :)
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tlchang37
Registered User
(2/25/05 11:36 pm)
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Re: Your favorite illustrations of and essays on Snow White?
Trina Schart Hyman illustrated my favorite visual version of Snow White. (...miss her... Was looking at some of her work earlier in the evening and am still very sad that there will be no more forthcoming)
Tara
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Terri Windling
Registered User
(2/26/05 7:08 am)
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Re: Your favorite illustrations of and essays on Snow White?
Trina Schart Hyman's illustrations are my favorites too...they're utterly magical. I also like Nancy E. Burkert's, Angela Barrett's, and Fiona French's unusual Snow White in New York (set in 1930s high society).
A. S. Byatt discusses Snow White (and other tales) in her essay "Ice, Snow, Glass" -- published in Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales, edited by Kate Bernheimer.
There are two lovely Snow White poems on the Endicott Studio site:
"Snow White to the Prince" by Delia Sherman
www.endicott-studio.com/cofhs/cofsnowt.html
"The Prince to Snow White" by Polly Peterson
www.endicott-studio.com/cofhs/cofp2sw.html
There's also an essay on the history of the tale (by me) on the same site:
www.endicott-studio.com/rdrm/forsga.html
Are you interested in fiction based on Snow White? If so, here are some recommendations (from the end of that essay):
"Snow, Glass, Apples" by Neil Gaiman (published in Smoke and Mirrors, and also in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Vol. 8) is a gorgeous retelling, lush and dark, from the "evil" queen's point of view -- as is Pat Murphy's affecting version, "The True Story" (published in Black Swan, White Raven).
Tanith Lee's dark fantasy tale "Red as Blood" is the title piece of her now-classic fairy tale collection, Red As Blood. "Snow-Drop," also by Lee (from Snow White, Blood Red), is a more contemporary treatment of the Snow White theme -- sensual, sophisticated, and disturbing. Her novel White As Snow (part of the Fairy Tales series from Tor Books) is a winter's tale that merges Snow White with the Demeter/Persephone myth. It's very dark, disturbing, and sexually explicit, however -- be forewarned.
Jane Yolen's "Snow in Summer" (in Black Heart, Ivory Bones) is a modern Appalachian treatment of the fairy tale. Michael Blumlein's "Snow in Dirt" (Black Swan, White Raven) is also a contemporary piece -- satiric, clever, and strange.
Edited by: Terri Windling at: 2/26/05 7:19 am
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Kel
Unregistered User
(2/27/05 1:46 pm)
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Thank you both! I don't think I have seen any of Trina Schart Hyman's work, but now I'm curious :)
Is that the same essay (Snow, Glass, Apples: the story of Snow White) that was at the beginning of White As Snow, Ms. Windling? The essay was great, and I'm reading the novel now. You're right, I'd never read it to any kids I was babysitting, but I love it.
After reading what you both wrote about the mirror, I've decided to start with designing that. Tanith Lee's description of the mirror has me interested in a mirror that can open or close, or maybe making it seperate panes of "glass." I've figured out how to build it, using a scrim instead of glass, so the figure can "appear" in the mirror when lit from behind, and look better when lit. Mostly I've been searching for lines I like, and love the thorns on my neighbors roses, but I'm debating whether it would be too cliche to use that, and if an audience would see it.
And I would love to hear about any fiction based on Snow White.
Thank you both again- I've got a lot to check out!
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Terri Windling
Registered User
(2/28/05 10:09 am)
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Kel, yes, that's the same essay that was printed in White as Snow. I'm glad you're enjoying the novel!
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Kel
Unregistered User
(3/4/05 8:44 pm)
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Yeah, its great- I think it may be worth it to just buy my own copy, though. I don't want to return it to the library.... So many late fees...
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