The Fantasy Film: Wizards, Wishes, and Wonders (New Approaches to Film Genre)

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2010
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The Fantasy Film provides a clear and compelling overview of this revitalized and explosively popular film genre. * Includes analyses of a wide range of films, from early classics such as The Wizard of Oz and Harvey to Spiderman and Shrek, and blockbuster series such as The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Harry Potter films * Provides in-depth historical and critical overviews of the genre * Fully illustrated with screen shots from key films

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The Fantasy Film provides a clear and compelling overview of this revitalized and explosively popular film genre. * Includes analyses of a wide range of films, from early classics such as The Wizard of Oz and Harvey to Spiderman and Shrek, and blockbuster series such as The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Harry Potter films * Provides in-depth historical and critical overviews of the genre * Fully illustrated with screen shots from key films

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 216
Edition: annotated edition
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 09 Apr 2010
ISBN 10: 140516879X
ISBN 13: 9781405168793

Media Reviews

In true reflection of its straightforward if generic title, The Fantasy Film presents a useful foundation for deeper reflection on the complexities of the fantastic in film. (Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 1 February 2014) Written in prose that is careful and cogent, the book provides a defence of what Fowkes calls the orphan genre (unloved; neglected; even, perhaps, of questionable legitimacy), one which she argues has long been excluded from serious analysis by dogmas of realism that privilege codes of ... mimesis. (Times Literary Supplement, 18 February 2011)

Author Bio

Katherine A. Fowkes is the 2011 Ruth Ridenhour Distinguished Scholar at High Point University where she is a Professor of Media Studies. She is the author of Giving Up the Ghost: Spirits, Ghosts and Angels in Mainstream Comedy Films (1998).