scholarly journals "Kinda like the folklore of its day": Supernatural, fairy tales, and ostension

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Tosenberger
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Folk Narrative ◽  
Folk Narratives

This essay considers the use of folklore in the television series Supernatural: the show does not simply retell folk narratives, but performs them both diegetically and metatextually in a process known as ostension. In the process of performance, main characters Sam and Dean often research and analyze the stories themselves, and perform portions of the folk narrative in order to bring about a resolution. This essay focuses upon episode 3.05 "Bedtime Stories," which does not simply depict the folk narrative genre of fairy tales, but also directly engages with the discourse surrounding fairy tales in popular culture; in particular, the episode reproduces widespread understandings of fairy tales as a gendered genre. The essay concludes with a discussion of fan fiction that uses fairy tales, seeing it as a transformative response to Supernatural's own transformation of folk narratives.

scholarly journals Hollywood heroes in high tech risk societies: modern fairy tales and emerging technologies

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (02) ◽  
pp. C05 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Lydia Svalastog ◽  
Joachim Allgaier
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Folk Narratives ◽  
Understanding Science

Science, research and emerging technologies often play a key role in many modern action movies. In this contribution we suggest to use genre analysis of folk narratives as an innovative and useful tool for understanding science and technology in action movies. In this contribution we outline our approach using illustrative examples and detail how understanding action movies as modern fairy tales can benefit the study of science, research and technology in popular culture.

scholarly journals Establishing the Generic Structure Potential of Bidayuh Bau-Jagoi Oral Folk Narratives, Dondan

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-72
Author(s):  
Yvonne Michelle Campbell ◽  
Kamila Ghazali ◽  
Sakina Sahuri Suffian Sahuri
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Generic Structure ◽  
Folk Narrative ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Culturally Based ◽  
Folk Narratives ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Semantic Attributes

This study aimed to establish the genre status of the Bidayuh oral folk narrative, known as dondan, with a focus on the Bau-Jagoi Bidayuh group. In order to analyse the genre status of the dondan, the Generic Structure Potential (GSP) is used. The analyses revealed that the dondan has a similar GSP to English Fairy Tales but differs in terms of one of the elements, the Placement, which is an obligatory element in the dondan. The study also revealed that the Semantic Attributes which realises these GSP elements are more culturally based. Although the GSP of the dondan is similar to English Fairy Tales, it is the optional elements that reflect the culturally related elements of the dondan especially the communicative purpose to educate and disseminate cultural knowledge. Future work on oral folk narrative should include in-depth analysis of lexicogrammatical items.

Our Mutual Friend

2018 ◽  
pp. 284-298
Author(s):  
Ian Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Formal Schooling ◽  
Our Mutual Friend ◽  
Savage Mind ◽  
Mutual Friend

This chapter situates Our Mutual Friend at the intersection of nineteenth-century projects of culture: the antiquarian, pedagogical, and anthropological. Silas Wegg and the doll’s dressmaker, Jenny Wren, represent competing versions of the novel’s imaginative sources in popular culture, attached to successive historical stages. Wegg is a corrupt avatar of the Romantic ballad revival, with its commitments to antiquarian nationalism and a degenerationist cultural history. Jenny personifies a communal heritage of folktales, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes, absorbed organically in childhood, anticipating the anthropological claim on these materials, in the decades after Dickens’s death, as relics of a universal ‘savage mind’. Our Mutual Friend resists both programmes, the anthropological as well as the antiquarian, in counterpoint to its well-studied critique of the acquisition of culture through formal schooling.

scholarly journals Fanfiction: Morality Challenges in Hyperreality Worlds

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellita Permata Widjayanti ◽  
Chaerul Anwar
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Sexual Fantasies ◽  
Moral Ethics ◽  
Using Data

In 4.0 era, in which popular culture is flourishing, fanfiction is experiencing rapid growth. Many fans write about their idols, characters in movies, anime, games, and TV series. They make simulations, create simulacra, and hyperreality. Unfortunately, there are many fan-fiction productions which have pornographic content that is not in accordance with Indonesian cultural norms and moral ethics. This then becomes a moral challenge for the nation, especially for the youth, as they have free access to the internet. This research aims to look the challenges of morality within fanfiction, explaining it through the theory of hyperreality by using data taken from popular fanfiction platforms. The results show that pornography contained in fanfiction poses a threat to the moral codes of teenage readers, and renders pornographic practices more common. Besides, the hyperreality fosters sexual fantasies, which may lead to sexual harassment, free sex, and deviant sex. Keywords: fanfiction, simulation, simulacra, hyperreality, pornography, morality

scholarly journals When the Author Owns the World

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 959-978
Author(s):  
Steven D. Jamar ◽  
Christen B’anca Glenn
Keyword(s):  
Pop Culture ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Television Series ◽  
The World ◽  
Original Works

Fan fiction is amateur writing that imaginatively reinvents a work in pop culture while maintaining the identifiable aspects of the preexisting work. Fans of various books, films, and television series write their own versions of the stories and post them online in fan fiction communities. Fan fiction as practiced today is a way for fans to creatively express themselves and become integrated into the story and world they love. The stories range from highly derivative works, where relatively few plot points are changed, to entirely new plot lines using the same world and characters of the original, underlying work. Some provide backstories about existing characters, and some are more in the nature of sequels. Some are quite original works more in the nature of “inspired by” than “derived from.”

The Vibrant Body of the Grimms’ Folk and Fairy Tales, Which Do Not Belong to the Grimms

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Zipes
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Brothers Grimm ◽  
Cultural Legacy ◽  
German People ◽  
New Tradition

This introductory chapter describes the corpus of folk and fairy tales that the Brothers Grimm had passed on to the German people. It then asks what legacy means in this context, more specifically in how the Brothers Grimm had attempted to pass on a wealth of cultural legacy and memory which have, in the process, become so universally international. The Brothers were aware from the very beginning that they were bequeathing their collected tales to a growing literate Germanic public; they endeavored to make these people more aware of popular culture in the German principalities. By doing this—bequeathing a legacy that was not really theirs to bequeath—they helped to create a new tradition of folklore that had a nationalist tinge to it.

Emotional landscapes of reading: fan fiction in the context of contemporary reading practices

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Samutina
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Reading First ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Theory Theory ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Literary Experience

This article focuses on fan fiction as a literary experience and especially on fan fiction readers’ receptive strategies. Methodologically, its approach is at the intersection of literary theory, theory of popular culture, and qualitative research into practices of communication within online communities. It characterizes fan fiction as a type of contemporary reading and writing. Taking as an example the Russian Harry Potter fan fiction community, the article poses a set of questions about the meanings and contexts of immersive reading and affective reading. The emotional reading of fan fiction communities is put into historical and theoretical context, with reference to researchers who analysed and criticized the dichotomy of rational and affective reading, or ‘enchantment’, in literary culture as one of the symptoms of modernity. The metaphor of ‘emotional landscapes of reading’ is used to theorize the reading strategies of fan fiction readers, and discussed through parallels with phenomenological theories of landscape. Among the ‘assemblage points of reading’ of fan fiction, specific elements are described, such as ‘selective reading’, ‘kink reading’, ‘first encounter with fan fiction texts’ and ‘unpredictability’.

Fairy tales, folk narrative research and history

1989 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Folk Narrative

Consciousness-Raising in a Child Abuse Flame War over Fan Fiction

2012 ◽  
Vol 144 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-26
Author(s):  
Rebecca Walker
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
L Word

A flame war over depictions of child abuse in a fan fiction competition based on The L Word television series (Showtime, 2004–09) provided an opportunity for feminists and others to deliberate over the issue of child abuse. Various tactics were used, including storytelling and the narration of intimate and personal stories of abuse, as well as more confrontational and personally derisive tactics. The flame war revealed taken-for-granted assumptions in a forum based on a lesbian-centred series.

scholarly journals "Let's get those Winchesters pregnant": Male pregnancy in Supernatural fan fiction

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berit Åström
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Social Conventions ◽  
Male Pregnancy ◽  
Gender And Genre

This article investigates mpreg slash fiction—same-sex relationships featuring male pregnancy—based on the television series Supernatural, looking at issues of gender and genre. It has been argued that slash writing is a highly subversive and resisting activity, appropriating someone else's characters and rewriting the romance script to suit different tastes than those prescribed by patriarchy. Yet fan fic texts are very diverse and it is difficult, if not impossible, to draw any general conclusions from them. The theme of male pregnancy has the potential to produce narratives that challenge our notions of gender, identity, sexual and social practices, as well as parenthood. Although the fan fiction I have analyzed all deals with these notions in various ways, the focus lies elsewhere. The authors of the texts focus more on exploring Sam and Dean as fathers and homemakers, on writing about family life, with all its traditional trappings. When the authors bring pregnancy into the equation, they draw on narrative and social conventions that follow this experience, resulting in conventional stories set in a very unconventional universe.

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