The YouTube Prioress: Anti-Semitism and Twenty-First Century Participatory Culture.
- Author / Editor
- Barrington, Candace
The YouTube Prioress: Anti-Semitism and Twenty-First Century Participatory Culture.
- Published
- Gail Ashton and Daniel T. Kline, eds. Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 13-28.
- Description
- Asserts that PrT "depends upon, and perpetrates, the worst stereotypes of Jews," and assesses thirty-two YouTube dramatizations and adaptations of the tale (posted 2006–11) as evidence of its contemporary reception among high school audiences, teachers and students alike. Focuses on the "idioms of YouTube" and the treatment of the anti-Semitism in the student videos, describing YouTube as the future "de facto archive of our visual cultural heritage."
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale
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