In a lecture this week we were told about fairy tales and cosplay and a little about Vladimir Propp. I thought I would post a small amount of research on Vladimir Propp, and some on fairy tales and cosplay.
Vladimir Propp was born 17th April 1895 and died 22nd August 1970. He was a Russian soviet folklorist and scholar. He analysed the basic plot components in a folk tales, he then broke the stories down into morphemes which means he analysed chunks of them. Propp identified 31 narratemes which means narrative units that form the structure of many stories.
A fairy tale is a type of short story. Within these story's there are characters (European folkloric characters, fantasy) such characters can be elves, fairies, goblins, witches, trolls anything of magic and enchantments. So many stories today still feature these types of characters and their natures in books, films, TV and games, Disney is a popular choice for showing these characters and stories within their films.
Cosplay is the term used for people (Fans) who dress up in costumes of their favourite character from such things as books, games, films, comics etc... it is them expressing their love for the character and a form of role-playing. It has been popular since the 1990's. I have been too many events in the past were cosplayers have been present, I am not one for cosplaying but I enjoy the costumes and I do appreciate the efforts that go into them.
Bibliography
Unknown. Fairy tales. Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_tale. Last accessed 12th Nov 2015.
Unknown. Propp's Morphology of the Folk Tale. Available: http://changingminds.org/disciplines/storytelling/plots/propp/propp.htm. Last accessed 12th Nov 2015
Images
Dyluthus Chris, (2014), Bio shock cosplay [ONLINE]. Available at: http://dyluthus.deviantart.com/favourites/42140540/Cosplay-Photographs [Accessed 12 November 15].
Josh Jackson, (2014), League of Legends Cosplayers are the Best: Dragon Con Photos [ONLINE]. Available at: http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2014/09/league-of-legends-cosplayers-are-the-best-photos-f.html [Accessed 12 November 15]
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