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The remediation of Alice found over and over again in the history of film and animation fills in some of the gaps, as even more generations of artists found starting points in Tenniel and others for fleshing out Wonderland. Disney's Alice is particularly subversive, rewriting Alice as thoroughly as any fairy tale the company has taken on, and for many it is the only (or at least first) entrypoint into Alice. The remix, in this case, brings the work into a new domain—not unlike the consequences of reproduction noted by Walter Benjamin: "the technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition" (sect. II, par. 4).


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