Open AccessBecky is my hero: The power of laughter and disruption in "Supernatural"
Author(s) -
Judith Fathallah
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
transformative works and cultures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1941-2258
DOI - 10.3983/twc.2010.0220
Subject(s) - laughter , depiction , character (mathematics) , hero , narrative , art , pleasure , power (physics) , aesthetics , stereotype (uml) , literature , psychoanalysis , psychology , social psychology , physics , neuroscience , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics
Interpreted through Mikhail Bakhtin's theories of resistant laughter, the fan insert character of Becky from Supernatural can be read as an invitation to appropriate the narrative for their own pleasure. However, outsiders to the fan community may not recognize that Becky's depiction is hyperbolic and may thus read the character as a damaging stereotype