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Fairy tales have some innate connection with people. They are present in a person’s life since childhood. They have evolved with every time period. Recent retellings of fairy tales are presented according to the need of time. They have not only encapsulated the film media, but have also highlighted the recent postmodern trend. A notion, propagating pluralist perspectives and emphasizing on relativity. Postmodernists have used the tool of intertextuality to reword the stories of past and to quench the postmodern thirst. The present study focuses on a contemporary American fairy tale movie to analyse the postmodern aspects present in it. The researcher has selected Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), a remake of The Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs which was a retelling of a story by brothers Grimm. Smith (2007) has construed a very unique yet comprehensive framework for analysing fairy tales. His eight elements of Intertextuality help examining the intertextual link of the contemporary tales with the older ones with the motive of highlighting the postmodernist aspect in them. Snow White and the Huntsman probes forward some sharp and evident changes in the storyline, characters description, roles and in different patterns of motives which are quite pluralist and decentralized than the older perspectives.

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