The Vanishing Hitchhiker

Posted on 27 May 2017 by Jan Harold Brunvand

The Vanishing Hitchhiker was Professor Brunvand s first popular book on urban legends, and it remains a classic The culmination of twenty years of collection and research, this book is a must have for urban legend lovers. New Download [ The Vanishing Hitchhiker ] author [ Jan Harold Brunvand ] – kino-fada.fr 3 stars almost feels too low, given how ravenously I read this book But I feel it had too much simple recounting of urban legends, and not enough analysis of what they tell about social insecurities, like the book allegedly set out to.I ve always been fascinated by dreams and what they tell us about our subconscious, and urban legends are the same for social consciousness And understanding this is going to beandimportant in age of fake news and internet echo chambers I feel like t 3 stars almost feels too low, given how ravenously I read this book But I feel it had too much simple recounting of urban legends, and not enough analysis of what they tell about social insecur...Calling The Vanishing Hitchhiker American Urban Legends and Their Meanings a work of horror is, perhaps, a tad exploitative And yet one cannot deny the power of the urban legend to creep us out While Brunvand penned this book as the result of his work in the world of folklore research back in the 1960s and 1970s, and its 1981 publication leaves itthan a little dated by today s standards, it s still one of the most eminently readable books on the subject today Rather than simply colle Calling The Vanishing Hitchhiker American Urban Legends and Their Meanings a work of horror is, perhaps, a tad exploitative And yet one cannot deny the power of the urban legend to creep us out While Brunvand penned this book as the result of his work in the world of folklore research back in the 1960s and 1970s, and its 1981 publication leaves itthan a little dated by today s standards, it s still one of the most eminently readable books on the su...Somewhere between and This summer, I m going to Tumblr blog the entire Scary Stories Treasury Before I dive into it, I wanted to get some background info on urban legends I first learned about ULs from my battered and loved copy of the Werewolf Storytellers Handbook, and that spoke very highly of The Vanishing Hitchhiker, so I dived in.So, how is it Academically, a brilliant treatise on how storytelling changes Entertainment wisea mixed bag.The chapters I like, I really enjoyed Anyt Somewhere between and This summer, I m going to Tumblr blog the entire Scary Stories Treasury Before I dive into it, I wanted to get some background info on urban legends I first learned about ULs from my battered and loved copy of the Werewolf Storytellers Handbook, and that spoke very highly of The Vanishing Hitchhiker, so I dived in.So, how is it Academically, a brilliant treatise on how storytelling changes Entertainment wisea mixed bag.The chapters I like, I really enjoyed Anything involving murder, ghosts, or bodies was great I love New York sewer gators and never realized if I knew that some legends have them floating through the albino marijuana forests that resulted from all the pot flushed over the years, I sure as hell would have put that in Murder With Monsters.Butthis stuff is kinda dated.You see, this was written in 1981 Now, the study of the UL has undoubtedly been revolutionized by ...The two stars are for the amusing legends themselves I especially liked dead grandma strapped to the roof of the car as well as the dead cat one The rest of the book attempts to analyze these rumors, false stories and just plain amusements to explain parts of our society, which is not only dull it is sometimes silly each chapter has at least 2 pages of...This reader wants to thank Openlibrary.orgThis book is not available in Italy well, I couldn t find it anywhere and I was almost tempted to delete it from my to read list I m fond of urban legends and this book is a sort of must read for whoever wants to knowabout classic tales of folklore You ll find the whole lot the vanishing hitchhiker, the dead granma whose body is stolen with the car, the babysitter cooking the baby in the oven and the old lady drying her poodle...This was a fun, if light, look at some popular American urban legends and their potential origins The analysis on their meanings was a little thin, but the book was apparently meant as a general introduction to folklore, so I guess that makes sense.It s dated, but the tales themselves are amusing.Fascinating.My 2009 bookcrossing review I really enjoyed this book It s an interesting look at the folklore of today, and even though it was written in 1981 the year I was born incidentally there are things in this that I recognise I remember similar versions of a lot of the stories in here from when I was at primary school The only difference being that we just told them as ghost stories we never suggested that they had actually happened or we knew someone involved But somehow we must have heard t My 2009 bookcrossing review I really enjoyed this book It s an interesting look at the folklore of today, and even though it was written in 1981 the year I was born incidentally there are things in this that I recognise I remember similar versions of a lot of the stories in here from when I was at primary school The only difference being that we just told them as ghost stories we never suggested that they had actually happened or we knew someone involved But somehow we must have heard these stories to be telling them ourselves A variation on the boyfriend leaving the girl in the car on her own that we had, was over on Dartmoor I think and a ...Jan Harold Brunvand s The Vanishing Hitchhiker is the first of several books he has published which take a scholarly look at Urban Legends Where did these legends start, how have they evolved to fit a new time or situation Urban Legends are interesting stories, as you will find people who are swear that they happened usually not to them, but to a friend or a relation or a relation of a friend, etc , and you can even find cases where they are reported as happening They can ...

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27 May 2017

Jan Harold Brunvand