Literature

Modern variations of the story include Tanith Lee's short story "Red as Blood" (published in her story collection of the same title) and Neil Gaiman's short story "Snow, Glass, Apples".

Other writers who have made use of the theme include Donald Barthelme (in his novel Snow White), Gregory Maguire (in his novel Mirror Mirror), Jane Yolen (in her story "Snow in Summer," published in Black Swan, White Raven), Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald (in their story "The Queen's Mirror," published in A Wizard's Dozen), Anne Sexton (in her poem "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," published in Transformations), Gail Carson Levine (in Fairest), Jim C. Hines (in his Princesses series, which portrays Snow White as a witch who uses various mirrors as the focus of her magic, with the 'dwarves' being elemental spirits that she can summon to aid her at the cost of taking seven years from her life every time she calls upon them) and A. S. Byatt (in her essay "Ice, Snow, Glass," published in Mirror, Mirror on the Wall).

Snow White's father is the principal character in the novel Tainted Glass written by Brian Carufe. The story is a prequel/retelling of the tale with the girl's father cursed into the Magic Mirror of lore.

Snow White is one of the principal characters in Fables, a monthly comic book series created by writer Bill Willingham and published by DC Comics's Vertigo imprint.

Film and television[edit source | editbeta]

1. A merchandise version of Disney'sSnow White (not true to the film version)

2. Snow White as portrayed by Ginnifer Goodwin in the ABC series, Once Upon a Time

• A silent film titled Snow White (1916) was made by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation and produced by Adolph Zukor and Daniel Frohman. Directed by J. Searle Dawley, it was adapted to the screen by Jessie Braham White from his play Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1912). The film starred Marguerite Clark as Snow White, Creighton Hale as Prince Florimond, and Dorothy Cumming as Queen Brangomar/Mary Jane.
• A Betty Boop cartoon Snow White (1933).
• The Disney animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). The dwarfs' names are Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey. In the Disney version, Snow White wakes from her enchanted sleep as soon as the Prince kisses her. Furthermore, the Prince and Snow White have met prior to her enchanted sleep, so that he has fallen in love with the waking, rather than the sleeping, princess, an unusual variation in the Snow White tales.^[11] This version of Snow White appears at the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts as a meetable character and is part of theDisney Princesses franchise. She is voiced in the film by Adriana Caselotti.
• The Disney version is distinctly parodied in the Merrie Melodies short cartoon Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (1943).
• A West German "all new, all live" version Schneewittchen und die sieben Zwerge was released in 1955. The film was later dubbed in English and released in North America in 1965.^[12]
• In 1961, the story was parodied in the film Snow White and the Three Stooges, starring Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Joe "Curly-Joe" DeRita. In the film, the dwarfs had gone on vacation and lent Moe, Larry and Curly Joe the use of their cottage.
• Schneewittchen und die sieben Zwerge a 1962 East German film.
• The comedy-horror-erotic adaptation of Grimms' Fairy Tales, Grimms Märchen von Lüsternen Pärchen (1969), presented Snow White among other characters of Grimm Tales.
• A pornographic version of Snow White was released in 1976 in the X-rated animated film Once Upon a Girl.
• A 1979 Pornochanchada adaptation Histórias Que Nossas Babás Não Contavam ("Stories Our Nannies Don't Tell") featured an Afro-Brazilianactress, Adele Fátima, as Snow White. However, Snow White was not named "White" (branca) but clara (a Brazilian racial term similar to fair skin).
• 1980 animation film A Snow White Christmas shows an original interpretation where the Seven Dwarfs are replaced by the Seven Friendly Giants.
• 1982 film Biancaneve & Co. is an adaptation of the fumetto Biancaneve by Leone Frollo. The film features the starlet Michela Miti as "Snow White".
• In 1984, Shelley Duvall's television series Faerie Tale Theatre did their own version of the tale with Vanessa Redgrave as the Evil Queen, Elizabeth McGovern as Snow White, Rex Smith as the prince and Vincent Price as the Magic Mirror. Duvall made an appearance in that episode as Snow White's Mother.
• In 1987, ABC debuted a sitcom based on the home life of Snow White and Prince Charming called The Charmings. The characters found themselves transported from their Enchanted Forest home to the Los Angeles suburbs, where they tried to adapt to life in the modern world.
• The 1987 fantasy film Snow White (starring Diana Rigg as the Wicked Queen and Sarah Patterson as Snow White) was released direct to video using the Cannon Movie Tale logo. Other fantasy films were released in the series. It is currently available on Region 1 DVD from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
• Nippon Animation told the story of Snow White in four episodes of its 1987 TV series Grimm Meisaku Gekijo (released in English as Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics).
• Filmation Studios produced a film called Happily Ever After in 1988, starring Irene Cara as Snow White. As if a sequel to the 1937 Disney film, Snow White meets with the Seven Dwarfelles, the dwarfs' cousins. Released theatrically in 1993, the film was commercially a failure; the company had planned to create more unauthorized sequels to Disney films.
• Daddy's Little Bit of Dresden China, a 1988 short film by British animator Karen Watson, uses the Snow White story as part of a story of child sexual abuse.
• In 1994, the Tatsunoko animation studio adapted the story into a 52-episode TV series, Shirayuki-hime no Densetsu ("The Legend of Princess Snow White"), aired in Japan on NHK. Tatsunoko's production incorporated several prelude episodes emphasizing the romance between Snow White and her prince before launching into the story proper.
• Also in 1994, an animated version entitled Snow White by Enchanted Tales was released by Sony as part of their Enchanted Tales Collection.
• Snow White: A Tale of Terror is a 1997 horror film based on the Snow White story. It stars Sigourney Weaver and Sam Neill. The film received mixed reviews, but is praised for staying with the dark formulas that were once present in the fairy tale.
• An adult film adapting the story is Biancaneve e i sette nani (1995) by Luca Damiano and starring Ludmilla Antonova.
• In 2001, Hallmark made their own retelling of the story with Snow White: The Fairest of Them All starring Kristin Kreuk. This version changed the storyline to include several more magical elements such as demons.
• 7 Dwarves – Men Alone in the Wood, a 2004 German comedy version of the fairy tale.
• A segment of the 2005 Turkish anthology film Istanbul Tales made up of five stories based on popular fairy tales is based on this tale where the daughter of a mobster meets the eighth dwarf in underground tunnels.
• HBO's Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child cast Halle Berry as White Snow, Lela Rochon as the spirit to the wicked queen, and Doris Roberts as the sage flower in the magic mirror.
• Another unofficial sequel of sorts was released in theaters in Belgium and France in January 2007: Blanche Neige, la suite (Snow White: The Sequel), an animated film for mature audiences. It was directed by Picha, who is known for his animated films of a sexually explicit nature.
• The 2007 film Sydney White is a modern retelling of the classic fairy tale. It stars Amanda Bynes as Sydney White (Snow White), Sara Paxton as Rachel Witchburn (the Wicked Queen), andMatt Long as Tyler Prince (Prince Charming).
• MGA Entertainment released Bratz Kidz Fairy Tale to which one of the main four characters (Jade) portrays Snow White alongside other fairytale heroines.
• In the mini series The 10th Kingdom, The series takes place years after Snow White's encounter with the Evil Queen and marrying her prince. The ghost of Snow White is played by Camryn Manheim who tells Virginia, a young woman from New York, that she is destined to defeat the new Evil Queen and help Snow White's grandson Prince Wendell White become king.
• A present-day take on the story provides the setting for the 2011 ABC fantasy series Once Upon a Time, in which Emma Swan, the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming, played byJennifer Morrison, holds the key to breaking the curse on a small Maine town where everyone is a storybook character whose memories and happiness have been stripped away by the Evil Queen. Snow White is played by Ginnifer Goodwin (and by Bailee Madison as a child), Prince Charming is played by Josh Dallas, and the Evil Queen is played by Lana Parrilla.
• Grimm's Snow White (2012), produced by The Asylum, starring Jane March as The Queen, Eliza Bennett as Snow White and Jamie Thomas King as Prince Alexander, was released direct-to-video on February 28, 2012.
• Relativity Media released a Snow White project, titled Mirror Mirror,^[13] directed by Tarsem Singh, on March 30, 2012. It stars Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen,^[14] Lily Collins as Snow White,Armie Hammer as Prince Andrew Alcott, and Nathan Lane as Brighton, the Queen's major domo.^[15]
• The 2012 feature film Snow White and the Huntsman, directed by Rupert Sanders, stars Kristen Stewart as Snow White, Charlize Theron as the Wicked Queen, Chris Hemsworth as Eric the Huntsman and Sam Claflin as Prince William.^[16]
• The 2012 silent Spanish film Blancanieves is a retelling of the story set in 1920s Andalusia. It stars Maribel Verdú as Encarna aka La Madrastra (the Stepmother) and Macarena García as Carmen aka Blancanieves (the Spanish name for "Snow White").
• In 2007 the movie "Enchanted" was produced, starring Amy Adams as Giselle, from the land of Andalasia, James Marsden as Prince Edward, Susan Sarandon as the evil stepmother Queen Narissa, her henchman Nathaniel, played by Timothy Spalls, and Patrick Dempsey as Robert Philip,Giselle's savior after Queen Narissa threw Giselle from Andalasia.
• The famous animated film, Shrek, by DreamWorks, features a magic mirror, similar to the one in Grimm's original tale.
• In Rooster Teeth Productions RWBY, Weiss Schnee (played by Kara Eberle) is a white-haired girl who carries the Myrtenaster, a rapier that channels the energy of Dust. Weiss is a princess and an heiress of the dwarven-operated Schnee Dust Company, a large company involved in Dust mining. She is an allusion to Snow White, which is reflected in her name, translated from German as "white snow".

Music[edit source | editbeta]

• In 1987, the French artist Mylène Farmer's song "Tristana", is somehow a faithful adaptation of Snow White, in Russian version.
• "Mirrors" by Envy on the Coast is a song dedicated to the tale of Snow White.
• Japanese band Sound Horizon released a song "The Princess Sleeping in the Glass Coffin", retelling Snow White in their 7th Album "Marchen". In this version, Snow White laughs madly during the torturing of her stepmother, so the prince ends up regretting the marriage.
• In 1993, Swedish band Ace of Base has Snow White as an allegory in their song "Waiting for Magic".
• In 2001, a sadistic version of the Disney Snow White appears in German metal band Rammstein's video for the song Sonne where Snow White is portrayed as a dominatrix and drug addict (who shoots up gold dust as a drug).
• In 2012, Snow White was the subject of the music video for the song "La La Love" by Ivi Adamou.

Theatre[edit source | editbeta]

• The story of Snow White is a popular theme for British pantomime.
• In some productions of the musical Into the Woods Snow White appears as the illicit love interest of one of the princes.
• Snow White is the central character in the long running musical Beach Blanket Babylon, which has been performed since 1974 in San Francisco. Played by Jude Smith

Video games[edit source | editbeta]

• Snow White: Happily Ever After (Super NES, 1994)
• Snow White: The Veil of My Heart (PC, 1999)
• Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Game Boy Color, 2001)
• Kagami no Naka no Orgel: Futatsume no Monogatari - Snow White (PC, 2003)
• Snow White and the 7 Clever Boys (PlayStation 2, 2006)
• Snow White (iPhone, 2009)
• Crazy Face: Snow White (iPhone, 2010)
• Snow White StoryChimes Match Game (iPhone, 2010)
• Hidden Objects - Snow White (iPhone/iPad, 2012)

"Kingdom hearts birth by sleep" Snow White is featured as a playable character in Fairytale Fights. She is shown in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep and makes a cameo appearance in the firstKingdom Hearts, voiced by Kurumi Kobato in Japanese and by Carolyn Gardner in English.