No. 27 (2019): Folklore, Media-Lore & Modernity

This special themed issue, conceptualised by Philip Hayward and edited by Tiffany Hutton, features a series of papers exploring the connections between various forms of folklore and modernity and the development of contemporary media-lore.

Published: 2019-12-20

Articles

Folklore, Media-Lore & Modernity: An Introduction

Tiffany Hutton

1-3
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From Popular Culture to Popular Custom, and Back Again: A Love-Lock’s Tale

Ceri Houlbrook

4-19
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Reworking the postmodern understanding of reality through fantasy in M. Night Shyamalan’s Lady in the Water (2006) and Neil Jordan’s Ondine (2009)

Manal Shalaby

20-30
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Place, Visibility and Perception: The materiality of Es Vedrà and its enfolding within New Age discourse and media-lore

Marcel A. Farinelli, Philip Hayward

31-51
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Sung by an Indigenous Siren: Epic and Epistemology in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria

Cornelis Martin Renes

52-71
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Under the Mermaid Flag: Achzivland and the performance of micronationality on ancestral Palestinian land

Philip Hayward

72-89
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King Neptune, the Mermaids, and the Cruise Tourists: The line-crossing Ceremony in Modern Passenger Shipping

David Cashman

90-105
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Through an Ale Glass, Palely: Mermen, Neptune/Poseidon and Tritons as motifs in beer brands and product labels

Alex Mesker

106-135
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Aquatic Heterosexual Love and Wondrous Cliché Stereotypes: Amphibian Masculinity, the Beast Bridegroom Motif and ‘the Other’ in The Shape of Water

Olle Jilkén, Lina Johansson

136-149
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The New Zombie Apocalypse and Social Crisis in South Korean Cinema

Sung-Ae Lee

150-166
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