Cinema Of The Fantastic
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Cinema Of The Fantastic
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Author : Chris Steinbrunner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974-01-01
Cinema Of The Fantastic written by Chris Steinbrunner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974-01-01 with Fantasy films categories.
Encountering The Impossible
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Author : Alexander Sergeant
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2021-08-01
Encountering The Impossible written by Alexander Sergeant and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-01 with Performing Arts categories.
2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Shortlisted for the 2022 Best First Monograph Award presented by the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Hollywood fantasy cinema is responsible for some of the most lucrative franchises produced over the past two decades, yet it remains difficult to find popular or critical consensus on what the experience of watching fantasy cinema actually entails. What makes something a fantasy film, and what unique pleasures does the genre offer? In Encountering the Impossible, Alexander Sergeant solves the riddle of the fantasy film by theorizing the underlying experience of imagination alluded to in scholarly discussions of the genre. Drawing principally on the psychoanalysis of Melanie Klein and D.W. Winnicott, Sergeant considers the way in which fantasy cinema rejects Hollywood's typically naturalistic mode of address to generate an alternative experience that Sergeant refers to as the fantastic, a way of approaching cinema that embraces the illusory nature of the medium as part of the pleasure of the experience. Analyzing such canonical Hollywood fantasy films as The Wizard of Oz, It's a Wonderful Life, Mary Poppins, Conan the Barbarian, and The Lord of the Rings movies, Sergeant theorizes how fantasy cinema provides a unique film experience throughout its ubiquitous presence in the history of Hollywood film production.
Fantastic Cinema
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Author : Peter Nicholls
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Fantastic Cinema written by Peter Nicholls and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Fantastic films categories.
Fantastic Cinema Subject Guide
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Author : Bryan Senn
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 1992
Fantastic Cinema Subject Guide written by Bryan Senn and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Performing Arts categories.
About 2,500 genre films are entered under more than 100 subject headings, ranging from abominable snowmen through dreamkillers, rats, and time travel, to zombies, with a brief essay on each topic: development, highlights, and trends. Each film entry shows year of release, distribution company, country of origin, director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, cast credits, plot synopsis and critical commentary.
Cinema Of The Fantastic
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Author : Chris Steinbrunner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Cinema Of The Fantastic written by Chris Steinbrunner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Performing Arts categories.
The World Of Fantastic Films
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Author : Peter Nicholls
language : en
Publisher: Dodd Mead
Release Date : 1984
The World Of Fantastic Films written by Peter Nicholls and has been published by Dodd Mead this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Performing Arts categories.
Filmograpy: p. (180)-221. Discusses the rise of the fantasy movie from 1950 to 1984.
Fantastic Cinema In The Years Before Cgi
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Author : Pierre V. Comtois
language : en
Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing
Release Date : 2017-12-04
Fantastic Cinema In The Years Before Cgi written by Pierre V. Comtois and has been published by Virtualbookworm.com Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-04 with Performing Arts categories.
"Fantastic Cinema in the Years Before CGI" is a celebration not only of films untainted by Computer Generated Imagery, but a reaffirmation of movie makers mostly of the previous century, who strived to make their films of the fantastic about something more than FX.
Suburban Fantastic Cinema
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Author : Angus McFadzean
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2019-03-19
Suburban Fantastic Cinema written by Angus McFadzean and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-19 with Performing Arts categories.
Suburban Fantastic Cinema is a study of American movies in which preteen and teenage boys living in the suburbs are called upon to combat a disruptive force that takes the form of popular cultural figures of the fantastic—aliens, ghosts, vampires, demons, and more. Beginning in the 1980s with Poltergeist and E.T. (both 1982) and a cycle of films made by Amblin Entertainment, the suburban fantastic established itself as a popular commercial model combining coming-of-age melodramas with elements drawn from science fiction, fantasy, and horror. The films that exemplify the subgenre generally focus on a young male protagonist who, at the outset, chafes at his stifling suburban milieu, wherein power is invested in whiteness, maleness, and heterosexuality. A fantastic occurrence intervenes - the arrival of an alien, a ghost, or some other magical or otherworldly force - threatening this familiar order, thrusting the young man - at first unwittingly - into the role of defender and upholder of the social order. He is able to rescue the suburban social order, and in doing so normalizes (for himself and for the primarily white, male, adolescent audience) its values. This study discusses some of the key instances of this subgenre, such as Gremlins (1984), Back to the Future (1985), Jumanji (1995), and Small Soldiers (1998), as well as its more recent resurgence in Stranger Things (2016–) and IT (2017). Exploring the importance of suburbia as a setting and the questionable ideological blindness of its heroes, this book reveals these underappreciated Hollywood films as the primary cinematic representation of late-twentieth-century American childhood.
The Spanish Fantastic
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Author : Shelagh Rowan-Legg
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-09-06
The Spanish Fantastic written by Shelagh Rowan-Legg and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-06 with Social Science categories.
In recent decades, the Spanish 'fantastic' has been at the forefront of genre filmmaking. Films such as The Day of the Beast, the Rec trilogy, The Orphanage and Timecrimes have received widespread attention and popularity, arguably rescuing Spanish cinema from its semi-invisibility during the creativity-crushing Franco years. By turns daring, evocative, outrageous, and intense, this new cinema has given voice to a generation, both beholden to and yet breaking away from their historical and cultural roots. Beginning in the 1990s, films from directors such as Alex de la Iglesia, Alejandro Amenabar, and Jaume Balaguero reinvigorated Spanish cinema in the horror, science fiction and fantasy veins as their work proliferated and took centre stage at international festivals such as Sitges, Fantasia International Film Festival and Fantastic Fest. Through an examination of key films and filmmakers, Shelagh Rowan-Legg here investigates the rise of this unique new wave of genre films from Spain, and how they have recycled, reshaped and renewed the stunning visual tropes, wild narratives and imaginative other worlds inherent to an increasingly influential cinematic field.Its emergence is part of a new trend of postnational cinema, led by the fantastic, which approaches the national boundaries of cinema with an exciting sense of fluidity.
The Modern Fantastic
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Author : Michael Grant
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The Modern Fantastic written by Michael Grant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Performing Arts categories.
This collection of seven critical essays explores the multifaceted nature of the cinema achievements of David Cronenberg. From The Fly through Crash and M. Butterfly Cronenberg's work has been provocative and important to the development of contemporary American film.