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This chapter explores the intertextual relationship between Lewis Carroll’s children’s novels, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, Walt Disney’s 1951 animated film, Alice in Wonderland, and much more recent film and television adaptations. In particular, the chapter focuses on the female form and various embodiments of Alice, using the construct of meta-adaptation to explore the narrative and cultural significance of evolving interpretations of the Alice character, with particular attention to the implications of Alice’s maturation from the pre-adolescent girl of Lewis Carroll’s original dream narrative to the young adult action hero of Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (ABC, 2013–2014).
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This section is adapted from a previous publication with Fantastika press and has been approved by the editors of this series.
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This is a term used to reference previous Alice figures.
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Dillon, J. (2019). Reimagining Alice Through the Intertextual Realm of Children’s Film and Television. In: Hermansson, C., Zepernick, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Children's Film and Television. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17620-4_7
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