npr:As Disney releases another Cinderella adaptation, we see again how perplexingly durable this sto
npr:As Disney releases another Cinderella adaptation, we see again how perplexingly durable this story is. The film that’s coming out this weekend may be bent and polished, stripped of some of its themes and relieved of its bone-burying — and Cinderella may now be an established part of the Disney princess racket — but this is still recognizably a story of which 345 versions could already be found almost 125 years ago.To try to figure out what exactly that story is and why we still have it, we have to separate out the folk tale that is Cinderella, though, from the turn of phrase that is “Cinderella story.” The actual Cinderella tale, while a nebulous thing that can be hard to pin down with precision, is more than that. A Girl, A Shoe, A Prince: The Endlessly Evolving CinderellaImage Via Disney Princess -- source link
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