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Apollonius and the Golden Fleece: A neo-mythological screen legacy

Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2022
A number of ancient poets and painters described or showed the Golden Fleece, one of the most intriguing supernatural objects in classical myth. But the poets were not as specific as their modern readers may wish. By contrast, cinema and television show
Martin M. Winkler
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Boy Melodrama: Genre Negotiations and Gender-Bending in the Supernatural Series [PDF]

Text Matters, 2016
For years Supernatural (CW, 2005–) has gained the status of a cult series as well as one of the most passionate and devoted fandoms that has ever emerged.
Agata Łuksza
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Monstrous melodrama: Expanding the scope of melodramatic identification to interpret negative fan responses to "Supernatural"

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2010
This article examines fan responses to an episode of the CW television series Supernatural; the episode features a metatext including a number of shout-outs and jokes about fandom.
Lisa Schmidt
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Television vampire fandom and religion

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2013
Popular culture and fandom provide a setting where people can reflect on the questions of life. A television show defines for many of its fans what it means to be human.
Minja Blom
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"The epic love story of Sam and Dean": "Supernatural," queer readings, and the romance of incestuous fan fiction

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2008
This article examines incestuous slash fan fiction produced for the CW television series Supernatural. I argue that "Wincest" fan fiction is best understood not as perverse, oppositional resistance to a heterosexual, nonincestuous show, but an expression
Catherine Tosenberger
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To Think and Watch the Evil: The Turn of the Screw as Cultural Reference in Television from Dark Shadows to C.S.I.

Babel: Littératures Plurielles, 2012
Since its first publication, Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw (1898) has always haunted the imagination of artists (Benjamin Britten, Jack Clayton, Amenábar) and has been widely used as a source for television narratives (Dan Curtis, US TV version ...
Anna Viola Sborgi
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“That Show You Like Might Be Coming Back in Style”: How Twin Peaks Changed the Face of Contemporary Television

American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2015
The present study revisits one of American television’s most famous and influential shows, Twin Peaks, which ran on ABC between 1990 and 1991. Its unique visual style, its haunting music, the idiosyncratic characters and the mix of mythical and ...
Moldovan Raluca
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"Kinda like the folklore of its day": "Supernatural," fairy tales, and ostension

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2010
This essay considers the use of folklore in the television series Supernatural: the show does not simply retell folk narratives, but performs them both diegetically and metatextually in a process known as ostension.
Catherine Tosenberger
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Une génération Sher-locked [PDF]

TV Series, 2014
The 2000s saw the emergence of five TV shows with very similar concepts: Sherlock, Elementary, House, Lie to Me, and The Mentalist. Each of these portray a principal character with a quasi-supernatural power to read others’ emotions, lies, and ...
Marie Maillos
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Intersectional critique and social media activism in "Sleepy Hollow" fandom

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2018
We examine fans' social media engagement with the supernatural detective series Sleepy Hollow (2013–17) and argue that fan discourses about the African American police detective Abbie Mills address the representational and institutional treatment of ...
Jacquelyn Arcy, Zhana Johnson
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