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The Fantasy Film

Katherine A. Fowkes
The Fantasy Film Book PDF

Author : Katherine A. Fowkes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1444320599

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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

Fantasy Film

James Walters
Fantasy Film Book PDF

Author : James Walters
Publisher : Berg
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781847888426

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Fantasy Film by James Walters Pdf

Fantasy Film proposes an innovative approach to the study of this most popular cinematic genre. Engaging with the diversity of tones, forms and styles that fantasy can take in the cinema, the book examines the value and significance of fantasy across a wide range of key films. This volume extends critical understanding beyond the often narrowly defined boundaries of what is seen as "fantasy". Fantasy Film uses key concepts in film studies - such as authorship, representation, history,genre, coherence and point of view - to interrogate the fantasy genre and establish its parameters. A wide range of films are held up to close scrutiny to illustrate the discussion. Moving from Alfred Hitchcock's dark thrillers to Vincente Minnelli's vibrant musicals, from George Méliès' 1904 Voyage à travers l'impossible to the X-Men series, the creative dexterity and excitement of film fantasy is evoked and explored. The book will be invaluable to students and fans of the fantasy genre.

Writing the Fantasy Film

Sable Jak
Writing the Fantasy Film Book PDF

Author : Sable Jak
Publisher : Michael Wiese Productions
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015059553472

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From it's a Wonderful Life, to Star Wars, fantasy is not bound by a specific formula. It spans all genres, times and locals, and has contributed to the folklore and literature of every culture around the world. Writing the fantasy film guides you through the fantasy script process, without having to sprinkle the fairy dust.

Encountering the Impossible

Alexander Sergeant
Encountering the Impossible Book PDF

Author : Alexander Sergeant
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438484600

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Encountering the Impossible by Alexander Sergeant Pdf

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.

Fantasy

Jacqueline Furby,Claire Hines
Fantasy Book PDF

Author : Jacqueline Furby,Claire Hines
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136640742

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Fantasy by Jacqueline Furby,Claire Hines Pdf

This book considers fantasy film and its relationship to myth, legend and fairytale, examining its important role in contemporary culture. It provides an historical overview of the genre and its evolution, contextualising each fantasy film within its socio-cultural period and with reference to relevant critical theory.

Cinema and Sorcery: the Comprehensive Guide to Fantasy Film

Arnold T Blumberg,Scott A. Woodard
Cinema and Sorcery the Comprehensive Guide to Fantasy Film Book PDF

Author : Arnold T Blumberg,Scott A. Woodard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1934547719

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Cinema and Sorcery: the Comprehensive Guide to Fantasy Film by Arnold T Blumberg,Scott A. Woodard Pdf

From the dawn of feature films, fans--be they artists, gamers, visionaries, writers, or dreamers--have drawn inspiration from the big screen. Now, between the covers of Cinema & Sorcery, embark on a decades-long journey through time from the earliest days of sword and sorcery films up to the present day. Learn the who, the what, the where, and the how of your favorite fantasy movies (and perhaps a few you may have never even heard of until now). Fifty films are covered in great detail, followed by shorter entries for every fantasy film we could find. So turn up your Krull soundtrack, slip into your Labyrinth t-shirt, and brush up on your Princess Bride quotes, this is Cinema & Sorcery: The Comprehensive Guide to Fantasy Film!

Fantasy/Animation

Christopher Holliday,Alexander Sergeant
Fantasy Animation Book PDF

Author : Christopher Holliday,Alexander Sergeant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351681414

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Fantasy/Animation by Christopher Holliday,Alexander Sergeant Pdf

This book examines the relationship that exists between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Animation has played a key role in defining our collective expectations and experiences of fantasy cinema, just as fantasy storytelling has often served as inspiration for our most popular animated film and television. Bringing together contributions from world-renowned film and media scholars, Fantasy/Animation considers the various historical, theoretical, and cultural ramifications of the animated fantasy film. This collection provides a range of chapters on subjects including Disney, Pixar, and Studio Ghibli, filmmakers such as Ralph Bakshi and James Cameron, and on film and television franchises such as Dreamworks’ How To Train Your Dragon (2010–) and HBO’s Game of Thrones (2011–).

Top 100 Fantasy Movies

Gary Gerani
Top 100 Fantasy Movies Book PDF

Author : Gary Gerani
Publisher : Top 100
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fantasy films
ISBN : 1613775245

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The film critiques within represent the author's choices for the cinema's most significant fantasy endeavors.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Flashbacks

Tom Weaver
Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Flashbacks Book PDF

Author : Tom Weaver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015045657049

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Flashbacks by Tom Weaver Pdf

As a 12-year-old, Richard Eyer costarred with Robby the Robot. In Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Paul Mantee's costar was a monkey named Barney who received billing as Mona, the Woolly Monkey. Actress Randy Stuart played the wife of The Incredible Shrinking Man. Alan Caillou wrote the original pilot outline for television's The Six Million Dollar Man. Asked to look over the final script six months later, he noticed that exactly one of his lines was being used (and that out of context) and that 27 writers were being given writing credit!Tom Weaver--author of Attack of the Monster Movie Makers, Science Fiction Stars and Horror Heroes, They Fought in the Creature Features, and Interviews with B Science Fiction and Horror Movie Makers--returns with a new collection of interviews that go behind the scenes of Golden Age science fiction, horror and fantasy filmmaking. Among the interviewed are Casey Adams, John Badham, Antony Carbone, Robert Clarke, Sidney Hayers, Lewis Allen, Gene Evans, Alex Gordon, Jackie Joseph, Ken Miller, John Moxey, Arthur Ross, Arianne Ulmer, Debra Paget and Edward Dmytryk.

Framing Monsters

Joshua David Bellin
Framing Monsters Book PDF

Author : Joshua David Bellin
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0809326248

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Beginning with celebrated classics, the author locates King Kong (1933) within the era of lynching to evince how the film protects whiteness against supposed aggressions of a black predator and reviews The Wizard of Oz (1939) as a product of the Depression's economic anxieties. From there, the study moves to the cult classic animated Sinbad Trilogy (1958-1977) of Ray Harryhausen, films rampant with xenophobic fears of the Middle East as relevant today as when the series was originally produced. Advancing to more recent subjects, the author focuses on the image of the monstrous woman and the threat of reproductive freedom found in Aliens (1986), Jurassic Park (1993), and Species (1995) and on depictions of the mentally ill as dangerous deviants in 12 Monkeys (1996) and The Cell (2000). An investigation into physical freakishness guides his approach to Edward Scissorhands (1990) and Beauty and the Beast (1991).

The Little White Horse

Elizabeth Goudge
The Little White Horse Book PDF

Author : Elizabeth Goudge
Publisher : Lion Fiction
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781782643104

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The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge Pdf

'The Little White Horse was my favourite childhood book. I absolutely adored it. It had a cracking plot. It was scary and romantic in parts and had a feisty heroine.' - JK Rowling - The Bookseller In 1842, thirteen-year-old orphan Maria Merryweather travels to her family's ancestral home, Moonacre Manor, to live with her uncle Sir Benjamin. She immediately feels right at home with her kind and funny uncle and meets a wonderful set of new friends — but she quickly learns that beneath all this beauty and comfort, a past feud haunts Moonacre Manor and it’s her destiny to right the wrongs of her ancestors and restore the peace to Moonacre Valley. A beautifully written fantasy story filled with magic, a Moon Princess, and a mysterious white horse. Little White Horse and the delightful heroine, Maria Merryweather, are sure to be loved by all children.

Fantasy Fiction into Film

Leslie Stratyner,James R. Keller
Fantasy Fiction into Film Book PDF

Author : Leslie Stratyner,James R. Keller
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476611358

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Fantasy Fiction into Film by Leslie Stratyner,James R. Keller Pdf

This work examines the symbolism of fantasy fiction, literal and figurative representation in fantastic film adaptations, and the imaginative differences between page and screen. Essays focus on movies adapted from various types of fantasy fiction--novels, short stories and graphic novels--and study the transformation and literal translation from text to film in the Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Howl's Moving Castle, Finding Neverland, The Wizard of Oz, Wicked and Practical Magic.

Allied Artists Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films

Michael R. Pitts
Allied Artists Horror Science Fiction and Fantasy Films Book PDF

Author : Michael R. Pitts
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786460466

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Allied Artists Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films by Michael R. Pitts Pdf

Between 1952 and 1977, Allied Artists Pictures Corporation released over 80 feature films with horror, science fiction and fantasy themes, several of them featuring such genre stars as Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, John Carradine and Lon Chaney, Jr. Among Allied Artists' contributions are the classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers and the William Castle productions House on Haunted Hill and Macabre. Allied also released the camp favorites Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster, From Hell It Came and Queen of Outer Space, and imported European efforts such as Blood and Black Lace and Caltiki the Immortal Monster. Included here are detailed plot synopses and critical analyses of all of the films. Also covered are 22 features, including Little Shop of Horrors, made by other companies and released to television by Allied, and the studio's theatrical double-feature reissue of Paramount's The Blob and Universal's Dinosaurus!

Empire of Dreams

Andrew Gordon
Empire of Dreams Book PDF

Author : Andrew Gordon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 074255578X

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Empire of Dreams by Andrew Gordon Pdf

A look at various science fiction, fantasy, and horror films directed by Steven Spielberg, one of the contemporary filmmakers.

Music in Films on the Middle Ages

John Haines
Music in Films on the Middle Ages Book PDF

Author : John Haines
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135927691

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Music in Films on the Middle Ages by John Haines Pdf

This book explores the role of music in the some five hundred feature-length films on the Middle Ages produced between the late 1890s and the present day. Haines focuses on the tension in these films between the surviving evidence for medieval music and the idiomatic tradition of cinematic music. The latter is taken broadly as any musical sound occurring in a film, from the clang of a bell off-screen to a minstrel singing his song. Medieval film music must be considered in the broader historical context of pre-cinematic medievalisms and of medievalist cinema’s main development in the course of the twentieth century as an American appropriation of European culture. The book treats six pervasive moments that define the genre of medieval film: the church-tower bell, the trumpet fanfare or horn call, the music of banquets and courts, the singing minstrel, performances of Gregorian chant, and the music that accompanies horse-riding knights, with each chapter visiting representative films as case studies. These six signal musical moments, that create a fundamental visual-aural core central to making a film feel medieval to modern audiences, originate in medievalist works predating cinema by some three centuries.