In his literary work, “Breaking the Disney Spell,” Jack Zipes analyzes how “Disney managed to gain a cultural stranglehold on the fairy tale… [and how his] spell over the fairy tale seems to live on even after his death” (Zipes 414). Zipes begins by reminding us that Disney’s relationship with fairy tales is considerably new being the long history they have. He dives into that history by claiming, “The evolution of the fairy tale as a literary genre is marked by dialectical appropriation that set the cultural conditions for its institutionalization and its expansion as a mass-mediated form through radio, film, and television” (415). The different revolutions of the fairy tale and their encouragement for change created an environment that awarded