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.

Table of Contents

Articles

Folklore, Media-Lore & Modernity: An Introduction
Tiffany Hutton
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1-3
From Popular Culture to Popular Custom, and Back Again: A Love-Lock’s Tale
Ceri Houlbrook
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4-19
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
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20-30
Place, Visibility and Perception: The materiality of Es Vedrà and its enfolding within New Age discourse and media-lore
Marcel Farinelli, Philip Hayward
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31-51
Sung by an Indigenous Siren: Epic and Epistemology in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria
Cornelis Renes
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52-71
Under the Mermaid Flag: Achzivland and the performance of micronationality on ancestral Palestinian land
Philip Hayward
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72-89
King Neptune, the Mermaids, and the Cruise Tourists: The line-crossing Ceremony in Modern Passenger Shipping
David Cashman
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90-105
Through an Ale Glass, Palely: Mermen, Neptune/Poseidon and Tritons as motifs in beer brands and product labels
Alex Mesker
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106-135
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
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136-149
The New Zombie Apocalypse and Social Crisis in South Korean Cinema
Sung-Ae Lee
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150-166
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