http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tatar Just another Weblogs at Harvard Law School weblog Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:09:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.style.com/vogue/feature/2009_December_Hansel_And_Gretel/ Click to see the slide show of Annie Leibovitz's photographs of a fashion fairy tale. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tatar/2009/11/16/hansel-and-gretel-make-it-into-vogue/ Here's Maureen Dowd on the stunning film version of Andersen's "The Red Shoes." Pressburger and Powell's brilliant film brings Andersen's story into the twentieth century, with a doomed heroine torn between love and ballet. Here's Dowd on the Andersen story: “The Red Shoes” is based on a Hans Christian ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tatar/2009/11/16/the-red-shoes-on-screen/ The image is unsettling, but more disturbing is the first paragraph, which tells us about "one ancillary benefit" of research carried out by Charles A. Nelson III at Harvard. Nelson evidently outfoxed a Boston car salesman by reading his facial expressions and discovering that he was bluffing. (When ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tatar/2009/11/10/reading-faces-and-minds/ The Boston Globe reports the death of Dr. Hugh Morgan Hill. I don't think many locals imagined that Brother Blue had ever gone by any other name--he had become the spirit of storytelling, keeping traditional tales alive in a lively, street-smart way. I envision him now as one ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tatar/2009/11/07/brother-blue-tells-his-last-story/ What do you say to parents who think the Wild Things film may be too scary? Sendak: I would tell them to go to hell. That's a question I will not tolerate. Sendak sounds off on overly protective parents and other matters in a Newsweek interview.  He also gives ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tatar/2009/10/21/maurice-sendak-tells-parents-to-go-to-hell-and-worries-that-there-is-no-place-like-home/ http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/16/the-reading-life-what-makes-a-childrens-classic/ Dwight Garner takes the film version of "Where the Wild Things Are" as his point of departure for a meditation on what makes a children's classic. He invites readers to post titles of children's books passed down through the generations. The success of "Where the Wild Things Are" has led ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tatar/2009/10/20/the-media-goes-viral-on-childrens-literature/ Daniel Zalewski writes about children's picture books in this week's New Yorker. "The kids are in charge," he tells us, and today's picture books are full of anxious, apologetic parents who resort to canned psychobabble in an effort to get their kids to behave: "Use your words," "Hands ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tatar/2009/10/19/have-we-moved-beyond-struwwelpeter/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/oct/13/adult-content-warning-fairy-stories The Guardian is featuring fairy tales for an entire week, with "booklets of our best-loved fairy tales"), all of which can be read on the web. The writers who selected the stories for publication provide a guide to each set of tales. On October 10, for instance, Hilary ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tatar/2009/10/19/the-guardian-goes-wild-over-fairy-tales/ Jack Schafer reports in Slate on Sendak's reaction to Bruno Bettelheim's 1969 critique of Where the Wild things Are in The Ladies' Home Journal. He cites a 2005 NPR interview with Sendak: Sendak: And that creep—oh, that creep, that psychiatrist, Bruno Bettelheim ... NPR: Who ... Sendak: ... otherwise known by me personally ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tatar/2009/10/18/faithful-are-the-wounds/ Don Haase, editor of Marvels and Tales, sent me the two covers (posted below) from The Economist and Der Spiegel, which he spotted in the airport last week. "Who Can Save the SPD?" is the caption in the image from Der Spiegel. Fascinating that fairy tales are invoked ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tatar/2009/10/14/251/