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  Re: A Dream Walking: Desire and Fantasy in Catherine Breillat's "The Sleeping Beauty"

  Dream vs. Reality

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  Mattie Tanner University of Texas at Dallas

  Wednesday, March 14, 2012 — 4:46 am

  Wow, you have a brilliantly written argument and piece here. I immediately want to see this film not only because of it's surface fairy tale element, but it's deeper twists of it. I think fairy tales deal with this dream vs. reality element that ...
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  Re: The Root of Evil--ABC's "Once Upon A Time" Makes Evil Characters More Human

  I agree that the dichotomy of

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  Mattie Tanner University of Texas at Dallas

  Saturday, March 17, 2012 — 4:14 am

  I agree that the dichotomy of good and bad does tend to be blurred in more modern stories (and you should definitely watch the show!). I think it makes the story more real and relateable to the audience. People are not as clear cut and black and white as ...
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  Re: Fairy Tales And The Sophisticated Viewer

  Too Complex?

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  Mattie Tanner University of Texas at Dallas

  Wednesday, March 14, 2012 — 4:51 am

  I agree that OUAT's new take on the fairy tales have taken the rather simple stories and made them more complex for the audience. But I wonder if perhaps it has gotten to the point where it is gotten more twisted and complicated for the sake of being ...
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  Re: Fairy Tales And The Sophisticated Viewer

  My upcoming post on Thursday

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  Mattie Tanner University of Texas at Dallas

  Wednesday, March 14, 2012 — 5:01 am

  My upcoming post on Thursday might explain it a little better, but basically the fairy tale background given usually gives us better insight into how the character is the way he/she is in the non-fairy tale narrative. Usually the episode goes back and for ...
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  Re: I Like 'Em All Shapes and Sizes: "Transgressive" Beauty in America's Next Top Model

  Is it because of how we think of Tyra?

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  Mattie Tanner University of Texas at Dallas

  Wednesday, January 11, 2012 — 12:49 am

  I think you bring up some very interesting points, and I agree that Tyra continually enforces her presense in ANTM (it is her show after all, so perhaps that's why we let her). However, in regards to your point about how Tyra's efforts to have u ...