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Folklore Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Culture

By Mikel J. Koven , Sharon R. Sherman

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
0874216737, 9780874216738, 9780874216752, 0874216745, 9780874216745, 0874216753
LCC
PN1994 .F545 2007
Open Library ID
OL11119775M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1486053 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
232\240
Topic
Art Cinema
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Interest in the conjunctions of film and folklore is stronger and more diverse than ever. Ethnographic documentaries on folk life and expression remain a vital genre, but scholars such as Mikel Koven and Sharon Sherman also are exploring how folklore elements appear in, and merge with, popular cinema. They look at how movies, a popular culture medium, can as well be both a medium and type of folklore, playing cultural roles and conveying meanings customarily found in other folkloric forms. They thus use the methodology of folklore studies to “read” films made for commercial distribution. The contributors to this book look at film and folklore convergences, showing how cinema conveys vernacular—traditional and popular—culture. Folklore/ Cinema will be of interest to scholars from many fields—folklore, film studies, popular culture, American studies, history, anthropology, and literature among them—and will help introduce students in various courses to intersections of film and culture.

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