Film, Folklore and Urban Legends by Koven, Mikel J.

Film, Folklore and Urban Legends (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810860254)

Vendor: Mikel J. Koven
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Format: Paperback
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Film, Folklore and Urban Legends by Koven, Mikel J.

Film, Folklore and Urban Legends

$74.00
Film, Folklore and Urban Legends by Koven, Mikel J.

Film, Folklore and Urban Legends

$74.00
Format: Paperback
Description
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From Alien to When a Stranger Calls, many films are based on folklore or employ an urban legend element to propel the narrative. Films, Folklore and Urban Legends explores the convergence of folklore with popular cinema studies and focuses on the study of urban legends and how these narratives are used as inspiration for a number of films. Beginning with a general survey of the existing literature on folklore/film, this book addresses discourses of belief, how urban legends provide the organizing principle of some films, and how certain films "act out" or perform a legend.

Author: Mikel J. Koven
ISBN-10: 0810860252
ISBN-13: 9780810860254
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Language: English
Published: 10/25/2007
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.10w x 0.55d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2008 pg. 243
By Mikel J. Koven
By Mikel J. Koven
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Mikel J. Koven is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Worcester. He is the author of Blaxploitation Films (2001) and La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film (Scarecrow, 2006).

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