REALITY MAGIC AND OTHER LIES (PB)

A book that explores connections and discontinuities between lies and truths in fairy-tale films to directly address the current politics of fairy tale and reality. Notions of magic and wonder have been relegated to the realm of the fanciful, with science and reality understood as objective and true. But the skepticism associated with postmodern thought and critiques from diverse perspectives renders this binary distinction questionable. Pauline Greenhill offers the idea that fairy tales, particularly through the medium of film, often address those distinctions by making magic real and reality magical.