Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: Grounding the Spell: The Fairy Tale Film and Transformation / Jack Zipes -- Introduction: Envisioning Ambiguity: Fairy Tale Films / Pauline Greenhill and Sidney Eve Matrix -- 1. Mixing It Up: Generic Complexity and Gender Ideology in Early Twenty-first Century Fairy Tale Films / Cristina Bacchilega and John Rieder -- 2. Building the Perfect Product: The Commodification of Childhood in Contemporary Fairy Tale Film / Naarah Sawers -- 3. The Parallelism of the Fantastic and the Real: Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth/El Laberinto del fauno and Neomagical Realism / Tracie D. Lukasiewicz -- 4. Fitting the Glass Slipper: A Comparative Study of the Princess's Role in the Harry Potter Novels and Films / Ming-Hsun Lin -- 5. The Shoe Still Fits: Ever After and the Pursuit of a Feminist Cinderella / Christy Williams -- 6. Mourning Mothers and Seeing Siblings: Feminism and Place in The Juniper Tree / Pauline Greenhill and Anne Brydon -- 7. Disney's Enchanted: Patriarchal Backlash and Nostalgia in a Fairy Tale Film / Linda Pershing with Lisa Gablehouse -- 8. Fairy Tale Film in the Classroom: Feminist Cultural Pedagogy, Angela Carter, and Neil Jordan's The Company of Wolves / Kim Snowden -- 9. A Secret Midnight Ball and a Magic Cloak of Invisibility: The Cinematic Folklore of Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut / Sidney Eve Matrix -- 10. Tim Burton and the Idea of Fairy Tales / Brian Ray -- List of Tale Types and Literary Stories -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Contributors -- Index.