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Folklore studies and popular film and television: A Necessary critical Survey

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Folklore studies and its depiction in film and televisions despite being ignored by the film industries have been receiving suitable attention in the form of articles and paradigms. These provide information and entertainment to other mediums. Written in response to Paul smith's article, the writer has described what he feels wee points missed by him regarding folklore and how it can be explored by both popular film and television. This article provides a survey of the academic literature written on folklore and it also covers the cinema. With the start of cinema, it was just a matter of time that the folklorist and non folklorist began viewing the cinema as trying to become definitive which then tended to solidify a single variant. This was followed by soap operas playing them with storytelling tradition. However, for the folklorists a systematic analysis of the popular film and televise culture is absent when it comes to the discourses of folklorists.

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It is evident that gender is an issue that has not received wide depiction in either television or popular cinema. I feel that the fact is that even when it did, the feminine gender has been sidelined to a considerable extent. Masculinity is shown as the defining features that are responsible for security of the characters and sustaining them. The females take on the role of pre-feminist characters that were to rely entirely on the male character for protection and food. The families are shown as following the nuclear family concept. It would therefore not be surprising if feminist critics do not take easily to the depiction that the females are allotted.

"introduction" in fairy Tale Films

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It is quite natural that fairy tales are a part of the daily life as they exist in the western cultural heritage. Story telling has been thousands of years old and has consisted of many different types of tales. They were told in different settings and in different roles and settings. It usually was told by a story teller to a group of people. This resulted in the formation of a close bond between the story teller and the listeners and these stories were reflective of the customs and norms of that group. Story telling kept thriving and generally the story teller became famous in his society. It represented the cultural context of the society. Slowly but ...