Tricksters

  Apply any one of the following of the critical concepts cited in the "Introduction to Tricksters" to any popular culture film, tv show, or graphic novel and compare it to an assigned fairy tale or short story for this week. (Remember that tv shows and films receive italics and fairy tales or short stories receive quotes " " and please cite to author and page number of assigned the fairy tale or short story.) 1) "Regression and denial [. . . ] are the two strategies the children use to solve their problems" (Betelheim quoted in Tatar 231). 2) "The peasant of folktale may have to worry about famines, but children in fairy tales live perpetuallu under the double threat of famine and cannibalism" (Tatar 230). 3) "The child protagonists do battle with dark forces, but more important, they begin as victims of hostile powers at home" (Tatar 229). 4) "They [children] are underdogs who turn the tables on their oppressors and establish, out of the least promising material imaginable, a new social order characterized by measured abundance and amiable good will" (Tatar 229).