The Woodcutter, a Review of Little Red Riding Hood

Abstract

This paper, in the tradition of comparative interdisciplinary studies, analyses the film The Woodsman as a re-reading and recreating of the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood, analyzing the inter-textual dialogue that establishes with the two most famous versions of the children's story, by Charles Perrault and by the Grimm Brothers. The investigation of these crossovers focus on the issue of pedophilia that is openly treated in the movie and symbolically in the tales. With this purpose it is also approached the Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita, emblematic work in the treatment of the subject, that configures itself as a point of confluence for the narratives analyzed and it brings to the discussion another work of children's literature, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.