Bibliographic Details
Authors and Corporations: Sherman, Sharon (Author), Koven, Mikel (Other)
published: Logan Utah State University Press 2007
Media Type: Book, E-Book

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Item Description: Description based upon print version of record
Physical Description: Online-Ressource (232 p)
ISBN: 9780874216738
Language: English
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Other Editions: Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film As Vernacular Culture
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Print version: Folklore/Cinema : Popular Film as Vernacular Culture
Collection: Verbunddaten SWB
Table of Contents
Contents ; Introduction: Popular Film as Vernacular Culture ; I. Filmic Folklore and Authenticity ; 1. ""I' y ava't un' fois"" (Once Upon a Time): Film as Folktales in Quebecois Cinema Direct; 2. Elvis Gratton: Quebec's Contemporary Folk Hero?; 3. A Strange and Foreign World: Documentary, Ethnography, and the Mountain Films of Arnold Fanck and Leni Riefenstahl; II. Transformation ; 4. PC Pinocchios: Parents, Children, and the Metemorphosis Tradition in Science Fiction; 5. From Jinn to Genies: Intertextuality, Media, and the Making of Global Folklore
6. ""Now That I Have It, I Don't Want It"": Vocation and Obligation in Contemporary Hollywood Ghost FilmsIII. Through Folklore's Lenses ; 7. Marchen as Trauma Narrative: Helma Sanders-Brahms's Film Germany, Pale Mother; 8. The Three Faces in Eve's Bayou: Recalling the Conjure Woman in Contemporary Black Cinema; 9. Allegories of the Undead: Rites and Rituals in Tales from the Hood; IV. Disruption and Incorporation ; 10. The Virgin Victim: Reimagining a Medieval Folk Ballad in The Virgin Spring and The Last House on the Left
11. Beyond Communitas: Cinematic Food Events and the Negotiation of Power, Belonging, and ExclusionContributors ; Index