Informed consent--a fairy tale? Law's vision.

Informed consent--must it remain a fairy tale?

Informed consent: the law's uneasy compromise with ethical theory.

The Fairy Tale and Its Uses in Contemporary New Media and Popular Culture Introduction

Ever since the beginning of the 21st century, the fairy tale has not only become a staple of the small and silver screen around the globe, it has also migrated into new media, overwhelming audiences with imaginative and spectacular retellings along the way. Indeed, modern fairy-tale adaptations pervading contemporary popular culture drastically subvert, shatter, and alter the public’s understan...

We All Live in Fabletown: Bill Willingham’s Fables—A Fairy-Tale Epic for the 21st Century

Bill Willingham’s Fables comic book series and its spin-offs have spanned fourteen years and reinforce that fairy-tale characters are culturally meaningful, adaptable, subversive, and pervasive. Willingham uses fairy-tale pastiche and syncreticism based on the ethos of comic book crossovers in his redeployment of previous approaches to fairy-tale characters. Fables characters are richer for eve...

Voice creation for conversational fairy-tale characters

The NICE fairy-tale game system allows users to interact with conversational fairy-tale characters in a 3D world environment. Apart from engaging in conversation, the characters are able to perform physical actions in this simulated world. The goal is to create believable fairy-tale characters with distinct personalities. The personality of the characters will be conveyed by their appearance, t...