Möbius Media
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Möbius Media

Popular Culture, Folklore, and the Folkloresque

  1. 370 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Möbius Media

Popular Culture, Folklore, and the Folkloresque

About this book

Möbius Media explores the interplay of popular and traditional cultures, reminding readers that expressive cultural forms are never mutually exclusive but exist in a state of creative tension and interconnection, merging and (re)defining one another. With this insightful volume, editors Jeffrey Tolbert and Michael Dylan Foster build on their earlier work, The Folkloresque, by considering how folklore is understood and mobilized within a variety of popular discourses and commercial marketplaces.
 
The collection challenges readers to consider the stakes of labeling something as folklore or folk. It demonstrates the rhetorical and political potency of ideas such as traditionality, heritage, and community in storytelling venues (including films, games, and even podcasts), in the construction and policing of genres, and in the selling of commodities. By interrogating popular media and expressions that make use of ideas such as folklore, tradition, authenticity, and heritage, Möbius Media further develops the theoretical applicability of the folkloresque concept and encourages productive interdisciplinary dialogue. Through the lens of the folkloresque, scholars can better see the hidden ideologies that inform the marketplace and influence contemporary modes of communication.
 
This interdisciplinary work will appeal to scholars and students of cultural studies, media studies, popular culture, literature, anthropology, and related areas.
 

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Information

Publisher
Utah State University Press
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781646426027
9781646426010
eBook ISBN
9781646426034
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Folklore & Mythology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. Preface and Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: The Value of Recursion
  8. Part 1: Tradition, Inc.
  9. Part 2: Folkloresque Worlds
  10. Part 3: The Horror of the Folkloresque
  11. Part 4: Folkloresque Beliefs
  12. Part 5: Reference, Replication, Recursion
  13. Index
  14. About the Authors

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