The Aged Woman as Specter in Two Filmic Adaptations of "Snow White"

[...]Mirror Mirror establishes a lighthearted tone by aligning with aspects of the screwball comedy The film makes use of body humor (with characters discovered seminude) and gross-out humor (as bird's excrement is smeared on the queen's face). [...]the aged woman is yet again denied a material space in the film, with the queen's death preventing any further development or exploration of the aged woman as a character or old age as a complex, diversely experienced, stage of life. Snow White's behavior undermines the characters' oppositional roles as good and bad females, with the paralleling of their characters hinting at the possibility of their shared fate. [...]while Snow White's future is as yet unwritten, in echoing the queen's line, the queen's life, struggle, and traumatic ending seem to haunt Snow White's person and future, as she too will eventually age. [...]in Neil Gaiman's short story "Snow, Glass, Apples" (1994), Snow White takes vampiric shape, copulating with men in the forest while feeding on and killing them. 2.