Pinocchio Goes Postmodern Perils of a Puppet in the United States

Pinocchio Goes Postmodern: Perils of a Puppet in the United States (Children’s Literature and Culture) by Richard Wunderlich, Thomas J. Morrissey
English | May 15, 2002 | ISBN: 0815338961, 0415993245 | True PDF | 276 pages | 18 MB
In the first full-length study in English of Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio, the authors show how the checkered history of the puppet illuminates social change from the pre World War One era to the present. The authors argue that most Americans know a trivialized, diluted version of the tale, one such source is Disney’s perennial classic. The authors also discover that when adults are introduced to the ‘real’ story, they often deem it as unsuitable for children.