Identifying Impressions of Baba Yaga: Navigating the Uses of Attachment and Wonder on Soviet and American Television
@article{Armknecht2017IdentifyingIO, title={Identifying Impressions of Baba Yaga: Navigating the Uses of Attachment and Wonder on Soviet and American Television}, author={Megan Armknecht and Jill Terry Rudy and Sibelan E. S. Forrester}, journal={Marvels \& Tales}, year={2017}, volume={31}, pages={62 - 79} }
The rise of Baba Yaga on international television provides an excellent case study for analyzing viewing practices associated with identification and allegiance. In analyzing Baba Yaga’s presence on Soviet and American television, we argue that viewing wonder tales leads to deep and lasting identification, attachment, and allegiance. Baba Yaga’s presence and popularity on Russian and American television allows us to explore how forming such deep impressions of a traditional character on…
2 Citations
Sexes, Sexualities, and Gender in Cinematic North and South American Fairy Tales
- ArtThe Fairy Tale World
- 2019
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 37 REFERENCES
Baba Yaga: The Ambiguous Mother and Witch of the Russian Folktale
- History
- 2004
Baba Yaga is a well-known witch from the folklore tradition of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. A fascinating and colorful character, she resembles witches of other traditions but is in many ways…
Engaging Characters: Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema
- Art
- 1995
Thrillers, weepies, horror movies, and melodramas evoke characteristic kinds of emotional response, yet emotion is not much examined by film or literary theory. Engaging Characters discusses…
Modernization, Nation-Building, and Television History
- Art
- 2018
Introduction Stewart Anderson and Melissa Chakars 1. The Opening Ceremonies of Television in Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, and Argentina Mirta Varela 2. Modernity as "Urbanity" in Early Public Service…
At Home in the Realm of Enchantment: The Queer Enticements of the Grimms’ “Frau Holle”
- Art
- 2015
In the Grimms’ “Frau Holle” (ATU 480) enchantment figures as a temporally distinct realm, a place of encounter rich with potential for queer interpretation. The abused, young stepdaughter who falls…
Politicizing Magic: An Anthology of Russian and Soviet Fairy Tales
- Art
- 2007
Part I: Folkloric Fairy Tales Introduction: Helena Goscilo The Frog Princess The Three Kingdoms Baba Yaga Vasilisa the Beautiful Maria Morevaa Tale of Prince Ivan, the Firebird, and the Gray Wolf The…
Russian Folk Belief
- Art
- 1989
A scholarly work that aims to be both broad enough in scope to satisfy upper-division undergraduates studying folk belief and narrative and detailed enough to meet the needs of graduate students in…
The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre
- History
- 2012
List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii Chapter 1: The Cultural Evolution of Storytelling and Fairy Tales: Human Communication and Memetics 1 Chapter 2: The Meaning of Fairy Tale…
Critical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales: An Intertextual Dialogue Between Fairy-Tale Scholarship and Postmodern Retellings
- Art
- 2011
In C"ritical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales: An Intertextual Dialogue between Fairy-Tale Scholarship and Postmodern Retellings" Vanessa Joosen broadens the traditional concept of…