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The Cottingley Fairies Go To The Movies: Part 1
The Lost Valley Podcast
English - January 09, 2021 09:32 - 1 hour - 82.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsSocial Sciences Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
It's early January at the cabin, before the snow. Cian watches the 1997 movie Fairy Tale: A True Story in the first of two investigations into the 1997 double-bill of Cottingley Fairy films. Grab yourself whatever you may need to get through a schmaltzy 90s kid film. Along the way we'll talk about:
-how Victorians & Edwardians were obsessed with fairies
-why Theosophists, Spiritualists, and Arthur Conan Doyle were so keen to believe in real fairies
-the strange friendship between Conan Doyle and the American magician Houdini
-the importance of ambiguity in films about fraud/belief
-the role of youth, femininity and class in the story of the Cottingley Fairies
SOURCES:
https://academic.oup.com/hwj/article-abstract/38/1/48/643266?redirectedFrom=fulltext
The Coming Of The Fairies, Arthur Conan Doyle, 1922
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47506/47506-h/47506-h.htm
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39592/39592-h/39592-h.htm