- Red Riding Hood (2011) directed by Catherine Hardwicke
- Tangled (2010) directed by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard
- ABC TV Series: Once Upon a Time (2011)
- NBC TV Series: Grimm (2011)
- Sleeping Beauty (2011) directed by Julia Leigh
- The Sleeping Beauty (2011) directed by Catherine Breillat
- Beastly (2011) directed by Daniel Barnz
- Mirror Mirror (2012) directed by Tarsem Singh
- Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) directed by Rupert Sanders
- The CW TV Series: Beauty and the Beast (2012)
“The Snow Queen,” the cherished fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, is a story about the struggle between good and evil and the eventual defeat of evil. I find it interesting that the source of evil, or the patron of evil, in these beloved fairy tales, is usually a woman (queen, stepmother, witch). Does a woman make for a better villain? I’m skeptical. In these stories, the women who possess power and personal agency are the villains. Inversely, the women who possess neither power nor personal agency are the heroines; their happiness and salvation are completely and utterly dependent upon their hero, their prince, their man. What is threatening about an independent woman in power? Why must she be vilified?
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