Category: Folklore

NCTA Job Annoucement Programming Manager – The National Council for the Traditional Arts (NCTA)

a non-profit traditional arts organization producing multi-cultural festivals, national tours and other public programs seeks an experienced, highly-motivated individual with a strong commitment to a broad spectrum of folk and traditional arts to develop and coordinate program content for major annual festivals, tours and other events.

Programming Manager – The National Council for the Traditional Arts (NCTA)
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Folklore: Review of Benh Zeitlin's "Beasts of the Southern Wild

The folkloristic dimension rests not so much in the myth and magical realism that pervade the film (the piece that reviewers often point to when invoking Zeitlin’s folklore background) as in the unvarnished (and profoundly ethnographic) portrayal of the details of their everyday lives.

Review of Benh Zeitlin’s “Beasts of the Southern Wild”

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