Cautionary Tales and Consolatory Fables - Fairytales and the Horror Film

警世故事和安慰寓言 - 童话故事和恐怖电影

基本信息

批准号：
2750556
负责人：
金额：
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依托单位：
University of Cambridge
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Studentship
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2022 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2750556
关键词：
Cautionary Tales Consolatory Fables Fairytales

项目摘要

This doctorate project proposes to investigate the meaningful parallels between folk/fairy tales and the horror film, both ofwhich provide accessible narrative frameworks through which a culture mediates its norms, values, and popularanxieties. This secondary research will take full advantage of the wonderful Cambridge Centre for Film and Screen aswell as the valuable folklore resources at the Haddon library, and will fall loosely into two categories: * First, it willaddress the common formal attributes between fairytales and horror films, including flat/archetypal characterisations,meta-fictionality, and the symbolism of magical objects. It will also highlight the common receptive contexts for eachgenre, such as how Anderson's theory of self-correcting folklore can be applied to horror franchises. * Secondly, it willinvestigate the important social and cultural contexts of both horror cinema and folk/fairytales. These involve a commoninvolvement in rites of initiation, the communication of moral taboos, and the expression of popular phobias. This projectbuilds on the recent popularity of folk-horror theory, but expands it in vital and necessary ways; and investigates theimportant theoretical claim that the folk narrative is not lost alongside pre-literature cultures, but rather survives inmodern media filmic reincarnations that maintain the vital social function and instrumentality of folklore and fairytales.

该博士学位项目建议调查民间/童话故事与恐怖电影之间的有意义的相似之处，这两者都提供了可访问的叙事框架，文化通过这些框架介导了其规范，价值观和受欢迎程度。这项二级研究将充分利用剑桥电影和屏幕上的精彩中心，以及哈登图书馆的宝贵民俗资源，并将逐渐分为两个类别： *首先，它将将童话和恐怖电影之间的共同正式属性（包括平坦/原型的典型特征，元文化，魔法对象）和象征性的象征性。它还将突出每个人的常见接收环境，例如安德森（Anderson）的自我校正民间传说理论如何应用于恐怖特许经营。 *其次，它将对恐怖电影和民间/童话的重要社会和文化背景进行评估。这些涉及起始仪式，道德禁忌的交流以及流行恐惧症的表达中的共同参与。这是关于民间恐怖理论的最新知名度，但以至关重要的方式扩展了它。并调查了最重要的理论主张，即民间叙事并没有与著作前文化一起丢失，而是在现代媒体的电影复活中幸存下来，以维持民俗和童话的重要社会功能和工具。