{"id":2964,"date":"2015-02-17T07:34:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T12:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/?p=2964"},"modified":"2015-02-17T07:39:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T12:39:57","slug":"fifty-shades-of-grey-as-a-fairy-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/2015\/02\/17\/fifty-shades-of-grey-as-a-fairy-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty Shades of Grey as a Fairy Tale?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2015\/02\/1550GREY2-articleLarge-v2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2965\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2015\/02\/1550GREY2-articleLarge-v2.jpg\" alt=\"1550GREY2-articleLarge-v2\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2015\/02\/1550GREY2-articleLarge-v2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2015\/02\/1550GREY2-articleLarge-v2-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>From the New York Times: \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Indeed, when Ms. Taylor-Johnson read \u201cFifty Shades\u201d for the first time, she did not see it as \u201cmommy porn,\u201d as some have called it, nor as an unlikely story full of clunky prose bogged down by a strangely chirpy narrator prone to referring to her \u201cinner goddess,\u201d as some reviewers have complained. Instead, she read it as \u201ca deep, dark, romantic adult fairy tale,\u201d she said.<\/em> <em>\u201cI thought, I haven\u2019t seen anything cinematically like what I was reading for a long time, if at all,\u201d Ms. Taylor-Johnson continued. \u201cIt felt like a very deep romance and a love story the likes of which felt quite unique.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\"><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2015%2F02%2F15%2Fmovies%2Ffifty-shades-of-grey-the-movie-as-a-fairy-tale.html#?secret=I4Kqo1Fqpz\" data-secret=\"I4Kqo1Fqpz\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Marina Warner links\u00a0<em>Fifty Shades of Grey<\/em> to the Bluebeard story, but a version of the story in which revenge &#8220;eludes the protagonist . . . and the female author chooses to let Bluebeard have his way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">In<em> Secrets beyond the Door<\/em><i>,\u00a0<\/i>a book I wrote many years ago about the story of Bluebeard and his wives, I focused on the charismatic appeal of the Bluebeard figure, a man who is wealthy, mysterious, sexually seductive . . . controlling and violent. \u00a0 The Bluebeard story &#8220;begins on the outside&#8211;in the realm of the familiar, common, and quotidian&#8211;and moves to the inside&#8211;the exotic, dangerous, passionate, and barbaric.&#8221; \u00a0What I discovered in the course of my research is that Bluebeard is one of those stories that will not go away, it ferociously repeats itself, as if it were entirely new. \u00a0<em>Fifty Shades of Grey<\/em> is the latest cultural inflection, and now I have my work cut out for me: reading the trilogy and watching the movie, then making a contribution to a shelter for victims of domestic abuse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/commentary\/john-henry-westen\/fifty-shades-grey-will-lead-spike-abuse-women<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; From the New York Times: \u00a0\u00a0 Indeed, when Ms. Taylor-Johnson read \u201cFifty Shades\u201d for the first time, she did not see it as \u201cmommy porn,\u201d as some have called it, nor as an unlikely story full of clunky prose bogged down by a strangely chirpy narrator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2964"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2973,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions\/2973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}