Abstract
The present study focuses on one of the contemporary
American fairy tale movies to analyze the
postmodernist aspects present in these movies. The
researcher has selected the movie Tangled released in
2010 for this purpose, it is a remake of the famous fairy
tale Rapunzel recorded by famous fairy tale writers,
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. One of the most prominent
patterns of analyzing the movies through the lens of
postmodernism is the framework by Kevin Paul Smith,
in his book The Postmodern Fairytale, Folkloric
Intertexts in Contemporary Fiction. He has presented
eight elements of intertextuality to examine the
intertextual elements of the older fairy tales present in
contemporary literature (2007). Analysis reveals these
eight elements in Tangled (2010) that are evident in
traces of postmodernity in the movie.
Authors
1-Mehwish Ali Khan Lecturer, Department of Englislh, Sardar Bahadur Khan Womens University, Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan.2-Fouzia Rehman Khan Assistant Professor, Sardar Bahadur Khan Womens University, Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan.
Keywords
Postmodernism, Intertextuality, Hypertext, Hypotext, Fairy Tales
DOI Number
10.31703/glr.2019(IV-II).08
Page Nos
50-58
Volume & Issue
IV - II