Cautionary Tales and Consolatory Fables - Fairytales and the Horror Film

这个博士项目旨在研究民间/童话故事和恐怖电影之间有意义的相似之处，它们都提供了易于理解的叙事框架，通过这种叙事框架，一种文化可以调解其规范、价值观和大众焦虑。这项二级研究将充分利用剑桥电影和银幕中心以及哈登图书馆宝贵的民间传说资源，大致分为两类：*第一，它将探讨童话和恐怖电影之间的共同形式属性，包括扁平/原型特征、元虚构性和魔法物品的象征主义。它还将突出每种类型的共同接受背景，例如安德森的自我纠正民间传说理论如何应用于恐怖系列。*其次，它将调查恐怖电影和民间/童话故事的重要社会和文化背景。这包括共同参与入会仪式，道德禁忌的交流，以及大众恐惧症的表达。这个项目建立在最近流行的民间恐怖理论的基础上，但以重要和必要的方式扩展了它；并研究了一个重要的理论主张，即民间叙事并没有随着前文学文化的消失而消失，而是在现代媒体中幸存下来，电影转世，保持了民间传说和童话的重要社会功能和工具。

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.