Cinderella is a very popular tale measured by the number of versions in different areas found by folklorists, popular interest in retelling this story in different times, and by the prevalence of this motif in the film versions or mass-mediated texts. It is also studied in the field of folklore, psychology, sociology, cultural and gender studies. This article is a critical survey of the western academic literature in recent years about the exploration or interpretation of Cinderella stories and other rewritten versions of fairy tales with the attempt to find out the new research areas which can develop in the field of children's literature and cultural studies. If the inter-textuality between literary texts and other cultural texts is considered within the interaction between children's culture and adults' culture, fairy tales can be viewed as an intermediate between popular culture and literary culture as well as a link between children's culture and adults' culture.