The Folkloresque: Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World 2015
DOI: 10.7330/9781607324188.c008
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“…as well as of media scholars and folklorists. To be sure, the Slender Man phenomenon is greatly indicative of folklore in the digital age, where media convergence and hybridized cultural communication outlets afford individuals greater access to (and dissemination of) information, operational autonomy, and the provision of infinite choice while exploring a vast array of creative avenues, providing a platform to forge communal bonds interchangeably between online and face-to-face communication and blurring the boundaries between corporeality/virtuality as well as between folk, mass, and popular culture (Blank 2013(Blank , 2015(Blank , 2016Howard 2008;McNeill 2009; see also Foster and Tolbert 2016).…”
Section: Reading Is Believing: the Role Of Folklorists In The Discoursementioning
confidence: 99%
“…as well as of media scholars and folklorists. To be sure, the Slender Man phenomenon is greatly indicative of folklore in the digital age, where media convergence and hybridized cultural communication outlets afford individuals greater access to (and dissemination of) information, operational autonomy, and the provision of infinite choice while exploring a vast array of creative avenues, providing a platform to forge communal bonds interchangeably between online and face-to-face communication and blurring the boundaries between corporeality/virtuality as well as between folk, mass, and popular culture (Blank 2013(Blank , 2015(Blank , 2016Howard 2008;McNeill 2009; see also Foster and Tolbert 2016).…”
Section: Reading Is Believing: the Role Of Folklorists In The Discoursementioning
confidence: 99%
“…также Hutcheon, 1999;Moreno-Nuno, 2009). И наконец, в научной литературе не хватает исследований, анализирующих юмористические элементы в реакции на травматические события прошлого: если не считать недавней работы Яна Хованца (Chovanec, 2019) о юморе после крушения Титаника, предметом анализа становятся в основном современные юмористические высказывания о недавних трагических событиях, например, смеховая реакция на теракт 11 сентября (Ellis, 2002), шутки, последовавшие за гибелью принцессы Дианы (Davies, 2003), шутки, связанные со скандалом, разразившемся вокруг растлителя Джерри Сандаски (Blank, 2016). Данная статья, рассматривающая два исторических прецедента в их историческом / архивном контексте с целью продемонстрировать, как авторы разрешают дилеммы «юмористическое / серьёзное», «художественное/реалистическое» и «частное/общественное», восполняет этот пробел.…”
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