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Hoffmann’s story “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” and its famous ballet adaptation, The Nutcracker. By centering Barbie asthe protagonist, this adaptation exemplifies how an animated revisitation of an oft-adapted story transforms a classic literary text to establish Barbie’s burgeoning twenty-first century transformation from a plastic toy to a moving and talking filmic heroine.  \nAnimated with motion-captured choreography from the New York City Ballet, and driven by Barbie’s adventures in a fantastical world, Barbie in the Nutcracker reifies the original story’s historical tethering to its balletic adaptation–which is underscored by the protagonist’s smooth human-like movement as she dances. The production of tie-in dolls at the film’s release also suggests the film’s ultimate purpose as a form of multimedia marketing for the Barbie brand itself. Drawing from Hutcheon’s assertion ofadaptation’s pleasurable repetition of the familiar and Henry Jenkins’ construction of transmedia narratives, this paper contends that Barbie in the Nutcracker (2001) shows that Mattel’s animated revisitation of a literary text simultaneously emphasizes the elongated cultural relevance of Hoffmann’s story while that same reconstruction of the text signals the use of Hoffmann’s story to bolster the doll’s jump from toy to screen through animation (Hutcheon, 2013; Jenkins 2006).  \nKeywords: Barbie in the Nutcracker · ballet · animation · adaptation · E.T.A. Hoffmann · Mattel  \nTranscr(é)ation 2  \nIntroduction  \nFresh on its awards season trail, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie (2023) has ushered anew resurgence on the eponymous doll’s transformation from toy to living and breathing woman—to the point where Margot Robbie’s portrayal of the doll fully turns into a human woman by the film’s conclusion. From Robbie’s donning of the doll’s iconic outfits in the film, to her red carpet stylings that draw upon Barbie’s history of fashionable outfits, Barbie has expanded from toy to human by the 2020s.1 However, Barbie’s first foray into cinema—as a heroine with narrative agency—comes in the form of the animated film Barbie in the Nutcracker (2001) directed by Owen Hurley. Incorporating the choreography of the New York City Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker through the use of rotoscope technology, computer-generated imagery, and Tchaikovsky’s famous score, Mattel’s Barbie in the Nutcracker intertwines the tensions in the archival of dance and ballet choreography with the reification of the Barbie brand.  \nIn this paper, I argue that in its reformulation of both E.T.A. Hoffmann’s novella The Nutcracker and Mouse King and Tchaikovsky’s ballet, Mattel’s Barbie in the Nutcracker ushers in a transformation of Barbie from toy to heroine and establishes for the doll a continued historic narrative of interactivity. Barbie in the Nutcracker (Hurley, 2001) shows that Mattel’s animated revisitation of a literary text simultaneously elongates the cultural relevance of Hoffmann’s story and of its balletic adaptation while that same reconstruction of the text signals the use of Hoffmann’s story to bolster the doll’s jump from toy to screen through animation. This film demonstrates how an existing literary and theatrical legacy can be used in securing a cinematic legacy; Barbie emerges as the central adaptive text. Consequently, the process of producing the film can be reduced to a marketing strategy to sell dolls. Essentially, by using a well-known canonical text and classical ballet as the basis of an adaptation that stars Barbie, Mattel relied on a cultural familiarity w","cbCaikOjH5Br6hdy","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikOjH5Br6hdy","pdf",427649,"English","# Introduction\n## Barbie’s transformation and early 2000s animated cinema\n## Choreography, rotoscope, and reification of the Barbie brand\n## Argument: cultural relevance and marketing function\n## The “gimmick” and viewer imagination\n# Related adaptations and franchise legacy","[{\"question\":\"What literary and balletic sources does Barbie in the Nutcracker (2001) adapt?\",\"answer\":\"It adapts E.T.A. 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