Paranormal Narratives and Their Role in Imposing Cultural Influence
摘要
This contribution came to shed light on supernatural narratives and their role in imposing the cultural influence of countries, by focusing on their conceptual aspect by understanding their meanings and connotation, and how to use them as a tool for cultural hegemony, then moving on to talk about the narratives of the mysterious enemy and their impact on spreading fear in society. Narratives that have come to depict an aspect of transcendent and limitless imagination that goes beyond everything that is realistic and logical by focusing on fictional stories along the lines of Mars invading Earth and alien beings emerging as the dinosaur era returns, and so on. This is what contributed to spreading fear among individuals and creating a kind of alienation in them, making them live in difficult psychological and social situations. This contribution concludes by focusing on supernatural narratives as a tool for creating a parallel reality in the mind of the recipient, thus creating a similarity between what is presented through these narratives and the real reality, and not The recipient differentiates between them as if they were one thing, and thus these narratives have been able to control the individual, his thinking, and his direction as they want.