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In the framework of this study, The Magic Forest (2014) film was studied as a postmodern fairy tale adaptation, and was also open to debate in the context of anti- fairy tale conceptualization. The four different narrative contents (Red Head Girl, Rapunzel, Jack and Butterflies, Külkedis) and the film, which builds a intertext narrative by cutting down the journey of the central heroes of these narratives in a forest, are set in a critical perspective as a result of the heroes' transformative interventions on the social gender roles and opening them to question their own desires and fate. In the first phase of the study, a text analysis was carried out based on Campbell's Hero's Journey Model, and the trips of each hero entered into each other and opened new possibilities. This study has found postmodern and transformative effects of the classical narrative. In the second phase, Gérard Genette applied to the method of speech analysis for the texts that contain narrative. The research has found that the Magic Forest film, although considered a postmodern story, has stories that re-create the existing social power relationships, social gender practices and paternal thought at the story (content) level.

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In the scope of this research, the film Into the Woods has been analyzed as a postmodern fairytale adaptation, besides it has been discussed in the context of anti-fairytale. The film which constructs an intertextual narrative with the intersection of four different fairytale contents (Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella) and the journey of central heroes / heroines from these fairytales, places into a critical perspective by transforming interventions on gender roles and the characters’ interrogation on their own will and fate. As a first stage of the research, a textual analysis has been made departing from Campbell’s model of Hero’s Journey and analyzed the paths open for new possible syntax of each hero / heroine’s intertwining journey. In the scope of this stage, postmodern and transforming effects to the classical narrative has been found. As a second stage, Gérard Genette’s method which offers a discourse analysis for narrative texts is applied. Consequently, although its postmodern narrative style, it is found that the film Into the Woods reproduces existing social power relations, gender practices and the patriarchal thinking in the level of narrative (content) discourse.