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Abstract: In studies on the widely understood culture of the child, examined interdisciplinary here, i.e. from a literary, cultural, pedagogical or sociological perspective, it has been noticed that literature for children and adolescents (including fairy tales) and films for young audience contain enormous potential for considerations on cultural gender. Children from an early age shape their attitudes associated with the differences between men and women by building a scheme that sorts information about the world into their own and opposite sex. The image of the self is created through personal patterns, from family, nursery school and school, and literature and films. In the process of socialization, little girls and little boys imitate the behavior of adults and characters of fairy tales and films. The areas of differentiation of the situation of girls and boys appear in symbolic layer of fairy tales, through reference to the hidden sex picture. The fairy tale and the sex archetypes contained therein, and the generous wisdom of the past, give the young man an inner compass to help move the world of emotions. In this paper we intend to analyze the content of chosen fairy tales and their film adaptations, to show how the identity of girls and boys are constructed, and what patterns of fairy tales are for boys and for girls. During the analysis, we draw attention to the arrangement of psychic characteristics and the types of gender relations contained in fairy tales and their screenings. These relationships can be found in the postmodern games shown in some fairy tales. The heroes of the fairy tales are also androgenic. The subject of our interests will be, among other things, fairy tales and their screen versions, such as Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella. The article aims to show gender differences between classic and contemporary fairy tales and film adaptations.
Keywords: masculinity, femininity, adrogyny, fairy tales, postmodernistic fairy tales, film adaptations
1.Introduction
Fairy tales are one of the oldest forms of storytelling that have been passed on from generation to generation. They follow some rules of the fantasy world, and children together with young people are wandering through magic world of animation and anthropomorphism. Fairy tale has established the essential elements of folk worldview.
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