How the Stop-Motion Animated Film ‘Coraline’ Borrows Narratives From Classic Fairy Tales and Ghost Stories
Michael Tucker of Lessons From the Screenplay takes a deeper look into the 2009 stop-motion animated film Coraline. Tucker explains how the narrative of the plot borrows from classic fairy tales, grotesques, and ghost stories, each of which has a specific storytelling structure that begins with envy, involves a struggle, negotiates a bargain, and ends with a lesson well learned.
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