“All That Was Lost Is Revealed”: Motifs and Moral Ambiguity in Over the Garden Wall
Pointedly nostalgic in both its source material and storytelling approach, Over the Garden Wall’s vintage aesthetic is not merely decorative, but ideological. The miniseries responds to recent postmodern fairy tale adaptations by stripping away a century of popular culture references and using motif...
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| description | Pointedly nostalgic in both its source material and storytelling approach, Over the Garden Wall’s vintage aesthetic is not merely decorative, but ideological. The miniseries responds to recent postmodern fairy tale adaptations by stripping away a century of popular culture references and using motifs, not to invoke and upset increasingly familiar fairy tales, but as an artist’s palette of evocative, available images. In privileging imagery and mood over lessons, Over the Garden Wall captures something that has become vanishingly rare in children’s media: the moral ambiguity of fairy tale worlds.1 |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2839db6670534313ae7d52ea012a75ad2022-12-21T23:51:12ZengMDPI AGHumanities2076-07872016-07-01535110.3390/h5030051h5030051“All That Was Lost Is Revealed”: Motifs and Moral Ambiguity in Over the Garden WallKristiana Willsey0Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Otis College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90045, USAPointedly nostalgic in both its source material and storytelling approach, Over the Garden Wall’s vintage aesthetic is not merely decorative, but ideological. The miniseries responds to recent postmodern fairy tale adaptations by stripping away a century of popular culture references and using motifs, not to invoke and upset increasingly familiar fairy tales, but as an artist’s palette of evocative, available images. In privileging imagery and mood over lessons, Over the Garden Wall captures something that has become vanishingly rare in children’s media: the moral ambiguity of fairy tale worlds.1http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/5/3/51transmediaartifactualizationmotifsfairy taletelevision |
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