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Short cuts volume 44
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"Often dismissed as simple escapist tales of sword and sorcery, fantasy is one of the fundamental impulses in filmmaking, a source of some of the most vivid and memorable films ever made that reaches far beyond the confines of a single genre. As well as some of the major genres, stylistic approaches and exponents of cinematic fantasy--from Georges Maeliaaes, Walt Disney, and Andrei Tarkovsky to contemporary fantasists such as Terry Gilliam and Peter...
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New approaches to film genre volume 7
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"With celebratory spirit, wicked scholarship, and impish wit, Katherine Fowkes mines the labyrinth of cult classics and box-office hits, striking Fantasy's motherlode right where timeless stories meet popular culture - and where fans and theorists collide. Readers will find this book as illuminating and entertaining as the great films of the genre." Catherine Warren, President, Fantrust Entertainment Strategies & Fantrust.Com.
"A lively, informative,...
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Contemporary cinema volume 3
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"Peter Jackson $1 (Bs film version of The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003) is the grandest achievement of 21st century cinema so far. But it is also linked to topical and social concerns including war, terrorism, and cultural imperialism. Its style, symbols, narrative, and structure seem always already linked to politics, cultural definition, problems of cinematic style, and the elemenal mythologies that most profoundly capture our imaginations. From...
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"Through an exploration of fantasy culture, this book asks why we are so eager to invest in storyworlds that, on the surface, can't possibly be true. And, more than that, why we continue to tell the same fantastic stories over and over again. To say, "Well, Hollywood has run out of good ideas, so they just recycle old ones," doesn't begin to address the issue. It doesn't explain why fantasy culture so closely resembles the stories much of humankind...
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When Lieutenant Uhura took her place on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise on Star Trek, the actress Nichelle Nichols went where no African American woman has ever gone before. Yet several decades passed before many other black women began playing significant roles in speculative (i.e. science fiction, fantasy, and horror) film and television--a troubling omission, given that these genres offer significant opportunities for reinventing social constructs...
