Folklore Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Culture

Contents\n......Page 6
Introduction: Popular Film as Vernacular Culture\n......Page 8
I. Filmic Folklore and Authenticity\n......Page 16
1. \"I\'y ava\'t un\' fois\" (Once Upon a Time): Film as Folktales in Quebecois Cinema Direct - Gillian Helfield......Page 17
2. Elvis Gratton: Quebec\'s Contemporary Folk Hero? - Julie M-A LeBlanc\n......Page 38
3. A Strange and Foreign World: Documentary, Ethnography, and the Mountain Films of Arnold Fanck and Leni Riefenstahl - Rebecca Prime\n......Page 61
II. Transformation\n......Page 80
4. PC Pinocchios: Parents, Children, and the Metemorphosis Tradition in Science Fiction - Holly Blackford......Page 81
5. From Jinn to Genies: Intertextuality, Media, and the Making of Global Folklore - Mark Allen Peterson......Page 100
6. \"Now That I Have It, I Don\'t Want It\": Vocation and Obligation in Contemporary Hollywood Ghost Films - James A. Miller\n......Page 120
III. Through Folklore\'s Lenses\n......Page 136
7. Marchen as Trauma Narrative: Helma Sanders-Brahms\'s Film Germany, Pale Mother - Margarete Johanna Landwehr......Page 137
8. The Three Faces in Eve\'s Bayou: Recalling the Conjure Woman in Contemporary Black Cinema - Tarshia L. Stanley\n......Page 156
9. Allegories of the Undead: Rites and Rituals in Tales from the Hood - Carol E. Henderson\n......Page 173
IV. Disruption and Incorporation\n......Page 186
10. The Virgin Victim: Reimagining a Medieval Folk Ballad in The Virgin Spring and The Last House on the Left - K.A. Laity\n......Page 187
11. Beyond Communitas: Cinematic Food Events and the Negotiation of Power, Belonging, and Exclusion - LuAnne Roth......Page 204
Contributors\n......Page 228
Index\n......Page 232