Filming Fairies
Popular Film, Audience Response and Meaning in Contemporary Fairy Lore
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 8933933 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Juliette Wood (autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2006 |
| Volumen | 117 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 279-296 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2006-10-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315 |
| Editorial | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00155870600928922 |
| OpenAlex | W2040621431 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 16 |
This study examines the idea of fairy lore (faery) as a modern concept with personal and humanistic overtones transmitted through mass media phenomena such as films. Analysis of the relationship between folk and popular culture has become increasingly sophisticated and has widened our appreciation of the ways in which mass-culture audiences use tradition to shape popular culture. Fantasy films draw on recognised traditional elements, but the significance of these elements has been mediated through nineteenth-century interpretations of fairy lore. Contemporary audiences are more likely to be exposed to such legends and beliefs in the context of mass media than by any other means, and visualisation of fairies in fantasy films is closely linked to these modern interpretations of traditional material. For cinema audiences, the idea of faery is no longer a traditional and immediate response to experience, it already carries overtones of nostalgia for the past, childhood innocence, utopian societies or sexual discovery. However, personal response and exegesis of this material, reinforced by repeated viewing, access to Internet sites and related activities such as role-play and merchandising, means that the interactions of these virtual communities can transmute and insert themselves into daily life through a shared appreciation of fantasy worlds. The ways in which these consumers of mass culture resemble or differ from a folk audience presents an interesting arena for understanding folklore as a living contemporary phenomenon
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| Velocidad de citación | historical |
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| Altamente citado | No |