Gail De Vos

What Happens Next?

Contemporary Urban Legends and Popular Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This fascinating book uncovers the history behind urban legends and explains how the contemporary iterations of familiar fictional tales provide a window into the modern concerns-and digital advancements-of our society. What do ghost hunting, legend tripping, and legendary monsters have in common with email hoaxes, chain letters, and horror movies? In this follow-up to Libraries Unlimited's Tales, Rumors, and Gossip: Exploring Contemporary Folk Literature in Grades 7-12, author Gail de Vos revisits popular urban legends, and examines the impact of media-online, social, and broadcast-on their current iterations. What Happens Next? Contemporary Urban Legends and Popular Culture traces the evolution of contemporary legends from the tradition of oral storytelling to the sharing of stories on the Internet and TV. The author examines if the popularity of contemporary legends in the media has changed the form, role, and integrity of familiar legends. In addition to revisiting some of the legends highlighted in her first book, de Vos shares new tales in circulation which she sees as a direct result of technological advancements.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Libraries Unlimited
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9781598846331
• ISBN-10: 1598846337
• Artikelnr.: 34391995

Autorenporträt

Gail de Vos is adjunct professor at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction The Popularization of the Genre Contemporary
Legends Redefined Features of Contemporary Legends Gender Issues in
Contemporary Legends Influences of Electronic Transmission on Contemporary
Legends What's Inside "What Happens Next?" References 1-Overview of Media
Appearances of Contemporary Legends Contemporary Legends in the Literary
Arts Horror Literature Selected Examples of Literature Incorporating
Contemporary Legends Contemporary Legends in Film and Television Televised
and Filmic Contemporary Legends Freaky Stories (Television Series)
Mythbusters (Television Series) The Simpsons (Television Series) Tales from
the Golden Age (2009) Horror Films Supernatural, Occult and Ghost Films
Slasher Films Making Their Own Horror Videos Examples of Horror and Slasher
Titles Incorporating Contemporary Legends Campfire Tales (1997) The Ring
(Ringu) (1998) and The Ring (2002) Supernatural (Television Series) Trick
'r Treat (2009) Urban Legend (1998) Urban Legends (Television Series) When
a Stranger Calls (2006) Darwin Awards Debunking and Confirming Contemporary
Legends International Society for Contemporary Legend Research (ISCLR)
References 2-Ostension, Legend Tripping and Commodification of Folklore
Definition of Terms Commodification of Contemporary Legends Examples of
Ostension and Pseudo-Ostension Bloody Mary The Halloween Sadist Ostensive
Abuse Mass-Mediated Ostension Candyman (1992) Urban Legends (1998) The
X-Files (1993-2002) Most Haunted (2002-10) Supernatural (2005-Present)
Blood Oath (2007) Cropsey (2009) Shoefiti Rationales for Shoefiti An
Ostensive Leave Taking Shoefiti as an Adapted Art Form Shoe Trees Shag or
Sex Bracelets Examples of Legend Tripping San Antonio Ghost Tracks
Rehmeyer's Hollow Stull Cemetery Screaming Tunnel at Niagara Falls Legend
Tripping in College Tunnels Cryptozoology and Legend Tripping The Jersey
Devil Mothman Commodification of Mothman Selected Resources on the Mothman
Literary and Visual Adaptations Legend Tripping Bloody Mary Halloween
Sadism Rehmeyer's Hollow Mercy Brown: Vampire San Antonio Ghost Tracks
Shoefiti Tunnel Legends "The Jersey Devil" Mothman Endnotes References
3-Folklore and the Internet: Netlore Definition of Terms Types of Netlore
and Newslore Computer Legends, Viruses and Warnings E-mail Hoaxes and
Social Network Warnings Types of E-mail Hoaxes Virus Hoaxes Giveaway Hoaxes
Charity Hoaxes or Sympathy Hoaxes Current Examples of E-mail Hoaxes Fake
Amber Alerts "Strawberry Quick" Panic "Le-a" "Nigerian Scam"/"Advance Fee
Fraud"/"419 Fraud" Interview with a "Scammer" Selected Resources on the
"Nigerian Scam" Social Network Warnings Chain Letters Photographic Urban
Legends "Tourist Guy" Photographic Parodies: "Roaming Gnomes" Additional
Netlore Examples Contemporary Legends Reflecting Domestic or International
Crisis "The Grateful Stranger" "Acid Rain Fallout" Scarelore "Bumping the
Bumper" "Burundanga" "Dangerous Canola Oil" "Egged Windshields" "Gang
Initiation" (Lights Out!) "Halloween Gang Initiations" or "Red October"
"Infant Car Seat" "Killer Clowns" "UPS Uniforms and Terrorism" Telephones
and the Contemporary Legend "Grandparent"/"Emergency" Scam "Stolen
Passport" Scam Literary and Visual Adaptations E-mail Hoaxes "Gang
Initiation" (Lights Out!) "Killer Clowns" "Roaming Gnomes" References
4-Conspiracy Theories Contemporary Conspiracies World Trade Center,
September 11, 2001 Chupacabra Chupacabra and Other Contemporary Legends
Chupacabra and Conspiracy Theories "The Fat Stealer" Cryptozoology
Connections Grease "Yakas" or Devils in Sri Lanka Organ-Theft Narratives:
The Stolen Kidney The Stolen Kidney The Stolen Kidney and Conspiracy
Theories "Wendy's Chili" Hoax H1N1 Pandemic Doomsday Prophecies 2012 Mayan
Prophecy Comet Elenin Debunking Conspiracy Theories Conspiracy Theories in
Popular Culture Chupacabra in Popular Culture The Stolen Kidney in Popular
Culture References 5-Ghostlore and Scary Stories Ghostlore Commodification
of Ghostlore Ghost Stories Ghost Hunting Ghost Tourism Ghost Legends
Revisited "La Llorona" "The Vanishing Hitchhiker" "Resurrection Mary"
"Humans Can Lick Too" or "Doggie-Lick" More Ghostlore Phantom Vehicles and
Haunted Roads Haunted Houses Haunted Bathroom Narratives and "Hanako-san"
"Kuchi-sake-onna, the Slit-Mouthed Woman" Campus Lore "Smiley Gang" "The
Hook" "The Suicide Rule" Other "Lethal" Legends A Contemporary Invention:
"Slender Man" Literary and Visual Adaptations "La Llorona" "The Vanishing
Hitchhiker" "Resurrection Mary" "The Hook" "Hanako, the Toilet Ghost"
"Kuchi-sake-onna" Recommended Resources References 6-A Meeting with the
Devil at the Crossroads: A Contemporary Legend? The Development of the
Crossroads Meeting Legend Historical Development of the Robert Johnson
Variant Antecedents to the Robert Johnson Variant Should It Be Considered a
Contemporary Legend? Related Legends "Pact with the Devil" "Robert Johnson
Curse" "Club 27" or "The Forever 27 Club" "Two Guitars" Commodification of
the Meeting at the Crossroads Legend Tripping and Pride of Place Robert
Johnson Blues Foundation Headquarters and Museum "Hellhound on My Trail:
Robert Johnson and the Blues" Conference (September 26, 1998) Recordings
YouTube and Internet Presence Reworkings of the "Meeting with the Devil at
the Crossroads" Allusions and Brief Mentions Musical Allusions Literary
Allusions Cinematic Allusions Literary and Visual Adaptations Novels Short
Stories Poetry and Song Lyrics Graphic Novels, Picture Books and
Illustrated Books Cinematic Reworkings: Movies and Television Screenplays
Selected Reworkings of "The Pact with the Devil" Online Lesson Plans and
Education Resources References Epilogue References Index Literary Index
Legend Index