Well, so far I moved back through the ages, so I guess it’s time to tackle a movie from Disney’s golden age. Pinocchio started, like a lot of classic novels, as a serials, which soon became populair and lead a novel. Nowadays it has become common to analyse Pinocchio like a book for “adults” (because, u know, children’s boeken don’t require analysing in the minds of serious academics, we first have to declare them as “adult” to be taken seriously), leading to the stories being read in a literature-historical contexts, with parallels drawn especially to the concept of the fool....
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