The Enduring Fantastic

Author : Anna Höglund,Cecilia Trenter
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476642789

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The Enduring Fantastic by Anna Höglund,Cecilia Trenter Pdf

Fantastic fiction is traditionally understood as Western genre literature such as fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Expanding on this understanding, these essays explore how the fantastic has been used in Western societies since the Middle Ages as a tool for organizing and materializing abstractions in order to make sense of the present social order. Disciplines represented here include literature studies, gender studies, biology, ethnology, archeology, history, religion, game studies, cultural sociology, and film studies. Individual essays cover topics such as the fantastic creatures of medieval chronicle, mummy medicine in eighteenth-century Sweden, how fears of disease filtered through the universal and adaptable vampire, the gender aspects of goddess worship in the secular West, ecocentrism in fantasy fiction, how videogames are dealing with the remediation of heritage, and more.

Author : Matthew Solomon
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438435824

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Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination by Matthew Solomon Pdf

"Best moving pictures I ever saw." Thus did one Vaudeville theater manager describe Georges Méliès's A Trip to the Moon [Le Voyage dans la lune], after it was screened for enthusiastic audiences in October 1902. Cinema's first true blockbuster, A Trip to the Moon still inspires such superlatives and continues to be widely viewed on DVD, on the Internet, and in countless film courses. In Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination, leading film scholars examine Méliès's landmark film in detail, demonstrating its many crucial connecions to literature, popular culture, and visual culture of the time, as well as its long "afterlife" in more recent films, television, and music videos. Together, these essays make clear that Méliès was not only a major filmmaker but also a key figure in the emergence of modern spectacle and the birth of the modern cinematic imagination, and by bringing interdisciplinary methodologies of early cinema studies to bear on A Trip to the Moon, the contributors also open up much larger questions about aesthetics, media, and modernity. In his introduction, Matthew Solomon traces the convoluted provenance of the film's multiple versions and its key place in the historiography of cinema, and an appendix contains a useful dossier of primary-source documents that contextualize the film's production, along with translations of two major articles written by Méliès himself.

Author : Phyllis M. Betz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786486144

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The Lesbian Fantastic by Phyllis M. Betz Pdf

Science fiction has long been a haven for lesbian writers, allowing them to use the genre to discuss their marginalized status. This critical work examines how lesbian authors have used the structures and conventions of science fiction to embody characters, relationships and other themes that relate to their experience as the quintessential Other in the broader culture. Topics include lesbian gothic, fantasy, science fiction, mixed genre texts and historical background for the works discussed. A vital addition to the scholarship on homosexuality and culture.

Author : Richard Iton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199733606

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In Search of the Black Fantastic by Richard Iton Pdf

Prior to the 1960s, when African Americans had little access to formal political power, black popular culture was commonly seen as a means of forging community and effecting political change. But as Richard Iton shows, despite the changes politics, black artists have continued to play a significant role in the making of critical social spaces.

Author : Carole M. Cusack,John W. Morehead,Venetia Laura Delano Robertson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781476670836

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The Sacred in Fantastic Fandom by Carole M. Cusack,John W. Morehead,Venetia Laura Delano Robertson Pdf

To the casual observer, similarities between fan communities and religious believers are difficult to find. Religion is traditional, institutional, and serious; whereas fandom is contemporary, individualistic, and fun. Can the robes of nuns and priests be compared to cosplay outfits of Jedi Knights and anime characters? Can travelling to fan conventions be understood as pilgrimages to the shrines of saints? These new essays investigate fan activities connected to books, film, and online games, such as Harry Potter-themed weddings, using The Hobbit as a sacred text, and taking on heroic roles in World of Warcraft. Young Muslim women cosplayers are brought into conversation with Chaos magicians who use pop culture tropes and characters. A range of canonical texts, such as Supernatural, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Sherlock--are examined in terms of the pleasure and enchantment of repeated viewing. Popular culture is revealed to be a fertile source of religious and spiritual creativity in the contemporary world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781874123132

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Fantastic reality. Marxism and the politics of religion by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stefan Rabitsch,Michael Fuchs,Stefan L. Brandt
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496836649

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Fantastic Cities by Stefan Rabitsch,Michael Fuchs,Stefan L. Brandt Pdf

Contributions by Carl Abbott, Jacob Babb, Marleen S. Barr, Michael Fuchs, John Glover, Stephen Joyce, Sarah Lahm, James McAdams, Cynthia J. Miller, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Chris Pak, María Isabel Pérez Ramos, Stefan Rabitsch, J. Jesse Ramírez, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Andrew Wasserman, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, and Robert Yeates Metropolis, Gotham City, Mega-City One, Panem’s Capitol, the Sprawl, Caprica City—American (and Americanized) urban environments have always been a part of the fantastic imagination. Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror focuses on the American city as a fantastic geography constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. Fantastic Cities builds on a mix of theoretical and methodological tools that are drawn from criticism of the fantastic, media studies, cultural studies, American studies, and urban studies. Contributors explore cultural media across many platforms such as Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy, the Arkham Asylum video games, the 1935 movie serial The Phantom Empire, Kim Stanley Robinson’s fiction, Colson Whitehead’s novel Zone One, the vampire films Only Lovers Left Alive and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Paolo Bacigalupi’s novel The Water Knife, some of Kenny Scharf’s videos, and Samuel Delany’s classic Dhalgren. Together, the contributions in Fantastic Cities demonstrate that the fantastic is able to “real-ize” that which is normally confined to the abstract, metaphorical, and/or subjective. Consequently, both utopian aspirations for and dystopian anxieties about the American city become literalized in the fantastic city.

Author : C. Harvey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137306043

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Fantastic Transmedia by C. Harvey Pdf

Contemporary culture is packed with fantasy and science fiction storyworlds extending across multiple media platforms. This book explores the myriad ways in which imaginary worlds use media like films, novels, videogames, comic books, toys and increasingly user-generated content to captivate and energise contemporary audiences.

Author : Jack Conrad
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781471726538

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Fantastic Reality by Jack Conrad Pdf

Author : Vairam
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781477218570

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Fantastic Five Fictions by Vairam Pdf

This book deals about blindly following the Western way of life since according to ancient texts of Hinduism, the four races which existed in Jam-bu Dweeb in which one of the continent Bharath. In that four pure races, white, red, yellow, and black, which mixed to form Asians, Chinese, European, and African races, which respectively are thinkers (white), red (administrators and executors), yellow (wealth creators), black (good and excellent working people). Therefore, after the mix, everybody slowly follows Western civilization without knowing the repercussion of terrorists, financial crisis, breaking of family, and easy way of making money by fraudulent means. All the five fiction stories revolve around these problems.

Author : Matt Fraction
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781302369156

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Fantastic Four Vol. 1 by Matt Fraction Pdf

Collects Fantastic Four #1-3, FF #1-3. We have seen the future and it will be fantastic! When Reed and Sue decide that the family needs to relax, they take Ben, Johnny and the kids on a little vacation ... through all of infinite time and space! And in the real absence of Marvel's First Family, a substitute FF, hand-picked by the real deal - Ant-Man, Medusa, She-Hulk and the all-new Miss Thing - stand ready to guard the Earth and the nascent Future Foundation ... for the four minutes that the Fantastic Four will be gone. What could possibly go wrong? Find out NOW!

Author : Anna Neill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000392722

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Human Evolution and Fantastic Victorian Fiction by Anna Neill Pdf

Following the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, Victorian anthropology made two apparently contradictory claims: it distinguished "civilized man" from animals and "primitive" humans and it linked them though descent. Paradoxically, it was by placing human history in a deep past shaped by minute, incremental changes (rather than at the apex of Providential order) that evolutionary anthropology could assert a new form of human exceptionalism and define civilized humanity against both human and nonhuman savagery. This book shows how fantastic Victorian and early Edwardian fictions—utopias, dystopias, nonsense literature, gothic horror, and children’s fables—untether human and nonhuman animal agency from this increasingly orthodox account of the deep past. As they imagine worlds that lift the evolutionary constraints on development and as they collapse evolution into lived time, these stories reveal (and even occupy) dynamic landscapes of cognitive descent that contest prevailing anthropological ideas about race, culture, and species difference.

Author : Jason Marc Harris
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754657663

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Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-century British Fiction by Jason Marc Harris Pdf

Arguing that the tensions between folk metaphysics and Enlightenment values produce the literary fantastic, Jason Marc Harris demonstrates that a negotiation with folklore was central to the canon of British literature. He uncovers the ideological agendas articulated using folkloric elements in works by James Barrie, William Carleton, James Hogg, Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald and Robert Louis Stevenson, among others, and reveals the rhetorical strategies for applying superstition in both folkloric and literary contexts of the supernatural.

Author : Paul Stamets
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781647221720

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Fantastic Fungi by Paul Stamets Pdf

2020 IBPA Awards Winner! “Louie Schwartzberg’s lightly informative, delightfully kooky documentary, “Fantastic Fungi,” offers nothing less than a model for planetary survival.” –Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times “Gorgeous photography! Time-lapse sequences of mushrooms blossoming forth could pass for studies of exotic flowers growing on another planet.” –Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal The Life-Affirming, Mind-Bending Companion Book to the Smash Hit Documentary FANTASTIC FUNGI Viewed in over 100 countries and selling hundreds of thousands of tickets on the way to finishing 2019 with a rare 100% Tomato meter rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Schwartzberg’s documentary Fantastic Fungi has brought the mycological revolution to the world stage. This is the film’s official companion book, that expands on the documentary’s message: that mushrooms and fungi will change your life– and save the planet. Paul Stamets, the world’s preeminent mushroom and fungi expert is joined by leading ecologists, doctors, and explorers such as Michael Pollan, Dr. Andrew Weil, Eugenia Bone, Fantastic Fungi director Louie Schwartzberg, and many more. Together these luminaries show how fungi and mushrooms can restore the planet’s ecosystems, repair our physical health, and renew humanity’s symbiotic relationship with nature. Join the Movement: Learn about the groundbreaking research that shows why mushrooms stand to provide a solution to environmental challenges, a viable alternative to traditional medicine, and a chance to radically shift consciousness. Most Comprehensive Fungi book in the world: Admire the astounding, underappreciated beauty with over 400 gloriously-shot photographs of the mycelial world’s most rare and beautiful species in their natural environment. World’s Leading Fungi Experts: Edited by preeminent mycologist Paul Stamets, who contributes original pieces, Fungi includes original contributions by bestselling author and activist Michael Pollan, alternative medicine expert Dr. Andrew Weil, award-winning nature and food writer Eugenia Bone, Fantastic Fungi director Louie Schwartzberg, and so many more. The book’s roster of experts make this the most comprehensive survey of the diverse benefits and extraordinary potential of these amazing organisms.

Author : Laura Gilpin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : UOM:39076005654731

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The Enduring Navaho by Laura Gilpin Pdf