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9780870497551

Manufacturing Tales

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  • ISBN13:

    9780870497551

  • ISBN10:

    0870497553

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1992-09-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Tennessee Pr

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Discusses the creation and diffusion of contemporary urban legends and explores their recurring themes of money, sex, and popular anxieties

Table of Contents

Introduction: Toward a Framework for Contemporary Legendsp. 1
Sexual Fantasies
Evaluating Psychoanalytic Folklore: Are Freudians Ever Right?p. 45
The Promiscuous Cheerleader: An Adolescent Male Legendp. 59
Welcome to the World of AIDS: Fantasies of Female Revengep. 69
Dangerous Products
Cokelore and Coke Law: Urban Belief Tales and the Problem of Multiple Originsp. 79
Folklore Diffusion Through Interactive Social Networks: Conduits in a Preadolescent Communityp. 86
The Kentucky Fried Rat: Legends and Modern Societyp. 120
Dangerous Capitalism
The Goliath Effect: Corporate Dominance and Mercantile Legendsp. 141
Mercantile Legends and the World Economy: Dangerous Imports from the Third Worldp. 164
Among Those Dark Satanic Mills: Rumors of Kooks, Cults, and Corporationsp. 174
Corporate Redemption
Redemption Rumors: Mercantile Legends and Corporate Beneficencep. 189
Redemption Rumors and the Power of Ostensionp. 205
Indexp. 209
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