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Rumeurs et légendes urbaines
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ISBN: 213049692X 9782130496922 Year: 1999 Volume: 3445 Publisher: Paris PUF

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Im Lichte der Grossstadt : Volkskundliche Erforschung metropolitaner Lebensformen
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ISBN: 3854370342 Year: 1990 Publisher: Wien Österreichischer Kunst- und Kulturverlag

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Encyclopedia of urban legends
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ISBN: 157607076X 9781576070765 Year: 2001 Publisher: Santa Barbara ABC-CLIO

Debunked! : conspiracy theories, urban legends, and evil plots of the 21st century
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ISBN: 1556529643 9781556529641 9781556529702 1556529708 9781556527074 1556527071 Year: 2008 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press,

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As he did in Urban Legends and Hollywood Urban Legends, and as he has done in dozens of columns for the Chicago Sun-Times over the last decade and a half, Richard Roeper lays out the basics of the conspiracy theory, quotes some of the true believers?and then tears the theory apart with his bare hands. 9/11 was an inside job. Lady Di and JFK Jr. were murdered. Heathens are winning the war on Christmas. American Idol is rigged. Barack Obama is a radical Muslim. The Secret will make you thin. The Virgin Mary is in the g

Rumeurs et légendes urbaines
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ISBN: 2130528473 9782130528470 Year: 2002 Volume: 3445 Publisher: Paris PUF


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Légendes urbaines. Rumeurs d'aujourd'hui
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ISBN: 2228886041 9782228886048 Year: 1992 Volume: 338 Publisher: Paris Payot

No way of knowing : crime, urban legends, and the Internet
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ISBN: 1135936404 1138977241 1135936412 1280019409 0203507797 9780203507797 0415947871 9781138977242 9781135936419 9781280019401 9781135936365 9781135936402 9780415947879 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York ; London : Routledge,

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This volume examines both 'old media' treatment of crime legends: news reports, fictional film and television depictions, as well as 'new media' interactive discussions of them: versions and discussions circulating in Internet newsgroups and via electronic mail lists.


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The legend of spring-heeled Jack : Victorian urban folklore and popular cultures
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ISBN: 1782041540 1283665980 1782040390 1843837870 Year: 2012 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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This book uses the nineteenth-century legend of Spring-Heeled Jack to analyse and challenge current notions of Victorian popular cultures. Starting as oral rumours, this supposedly supernatural entity moved from rural folklore to metropolitan press sensation, co-existing in literary and theatrical forms before finally degenerating into a nursery lore bogeyman to frighten children. A mercurial and unfixed cultural phenomenon, Spring-Heeled Jack found purchase in both older folkloric traditions and emerging forms of entertainment. Through this intriguing study of a unique and unsettling figure, Karl Bell complicates our appreciation of the differences, interactions and similarities between various types of popular culture between 1837 and 1904. The book draws upon a rich variety of primary source material including folklorist accounts, street ballads, several series of 'penny dreadful' stories (and illustrations), journals, magazines, newspapers, comics, court accounts, autobiographies and published reminiscences. 'The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack' is impressively researched social history and provides a fascinating insight into Victorian cultures. It will appeal to anyone with an interest in nineteenth-century English social and cultural history, folklore or literature. Karl Bell is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Portsmouth.


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Le destin des rituels : faire corps dans l'espace urbain, Italie-France-Allemagne
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ISBN: 9782728308217 2728308217 Year: 2008 Volume: 404. Publisher: Roma Ecole française de Rome

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Consacré au très vaste domaine des rituels urbains, ce volume propose une réflexion transversale aux périodes historiques et aux disciplines – de l’histoire à la science politique, de l’anthropologie à la sociologie – sur les processus de construction, désagrégation, manipulation, métamorphose et recomposition auxquels le « faire corps » a été continuellement soumis de l’Antiquité à nos jours. Se concentrant sur trois espaces européens aux traditions historiographiques bien distinctes, les vingt-quatre contributions rassemblées ici tentent d’élucider les dynamiques et le fonctionnement de ces processus « en devenir » marqués par une dialectique qui, à chaque période, entremêle tradition et rupture dans un jeu complexe. Certains rituels sont pluriséculaires et relèvent du champ des cérémonies religieuses et civiques, du monde carnavalesque ou du domaine traditionnel des entrées princières et des funérailles politiques, d’autres se relient aux pratiques en apparence plus modernes du vote, du tourisme, du sport ou des médias. Tous entretiennent cependant une relation subtile avec le temps, l’écriture et l’espace dans lequel ils s’inscrivent, entraînant des remodelages urbanistiques où la dimension spatiale du lieu se double de celle, temporelle, de la mémoire façonnée par l’écrit.

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