Fairy Tale Adaptations in Turkish Cinema and Analysis of the Vladimir Propp’s Folk Tales Functions on The Film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1970)

The fairy tales show the reality of everyday life with different characters. Fairy tales, sometimes occurring with extraordinary events, sometimes with dual oppositions, are created with a certain structural sequence. Tales created with a certain structural sequence conform to 31 functions and 7 people or figure analysis in the form of Russian semiotics Vladimir Propp's research on folk tales. It is possible to apply this analysis in the literature adapted from the tales. However, it is not possible to observe all of these functions determined by Propp, sometimes because of the clipping of the tale that is transferred to the film. The main point that should be considered here is that Propp's generally defined format order matches the movies transferred from the fairy tale. In Turkish cinema there are many examples of films adapted from the fable. However, in the 1970s, fairy tale adaptations were a valid type in Turkish cinema. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in Turkish cinema (1970), a film adaptation of attentive, good acting and audience record is an important factor in the selection of this film. One of the main objectives of this study is to examine how the narrative is made in fairy-tale adaptations in Turkish cinema, taking into consideration the semiotics study of Propp's folk tales. At the same time, he tries to solve the narrative structure of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1970) which is one of the fairy tale adaptations in Turkish cinema by Propp's method. In this case study, it is aimed to reveal that structural analysis of a cinematic narrative can be examined by semiotics studies whether or not it is adapted.

Keywords

Fairy Tale, Cinema, Film Narrative, Fairy Tale Adaptations, Formalism