Unruly audience : folk interventions in popular media / Greg Kelley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelley, Greg, 1960- author.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folklore.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Logan : Utah State University Press, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Unruly Audience explores grassroots appropriations of familiar media texts from film, television, stand-up comedy, popular music, advertising, and tourism. Case studies probe the complex relationship between folklore and media, with particular attention to the dynamics of production and reception. Greg Kelley examines how "folk interventions" challenge institutional media with active--often public--social engagement. Drawing on a diverse range of examples--popular music parodies of "The Colonel Bogey March," jokes about Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, touristic performance at Jamaica's haunted Rose Hall, internet memes about NBC's The Office, children's parodies of commercials, and jokes about joking--Kelley demonstrates how active audiences mobilize folklore to disrupt dominant modes of media discourse. With materials both historical and contemporary and compiled from print, internet archives, and original fieldwork, Kelley's audience-centered analysis demonstrates that producers of media are not the sole arbiters of meaning. With folklore as an important tool, unruly audiences refashion mediated expression so that the material becomes more relevant to their own circumstances. Unruly Audience foregrounds the fluid interplay between media production and audience reception and between forces of cultural domination and cultural resistance, bringing new analytical insights to familiar folk practices. This carefully crafted book will speak to students and scholars in folklore, popular culture, and media studies in multidisciplinary ways.

Contents:

Introduction : reception and resistance

Colonel Bogey's parade of parody

"There's dirty work afoot" : on the reception of Disney's Snow White

Haunting visitors : tourism, narrative, and the spectral

"That's what she said" : folk expression meets media meme

"Your Kind of Place" : brand awareness and Intervention in children's culture

"The joke's on us" : deconstructing metahumor

Conclusion : folklore, media, and the unruly audience.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 23, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: Kelley, Greg, 1960- Unruly audience

ISBN:

9781607329909

1607329905

Publisher Number:

40030107805

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.