Exploring the Fantastic
Exploring the Fantastic

Author: Ina Batzke

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2018-03-31

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 3839440270

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The fantastic represents a wide and heterogeneous field in literary, cultural, and media studies. Encompassing some of the field's foremost voices such as Fred Botting and Larissa Lai, as well as exciting new perspectives by junior scholars, this volume offers a mosaic of the fantastic now. The contributions pinpoint and discuss current developments in theory and practice by offering enlightening snapshots of the contemporary Anglophone landscape of research in the fantastic. The authors' arguments and analyses thus give new impetus to the field's theoretical and methodological approaches, its textual materials, its main interests, and its crucial findings.

The Fantastic Other
The Fantastic Other

Author: Brett Cooke

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9789042004009

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The Fantastic Other is a carefully assembled collection of essays on the increasingly significant question of alterity in modern fantasy, the ways in which the understanding and construction of the Other shapes both our art and our imagination. The collection takes a unique perspective, seeing alterity not merely as a social issue but as a biological one. Our fifteen essays cover the problems posed by the Other, which, after all, go well beyond the bounds of any single critical perspective. With this in mind, we have selected studies to show how insights from deconstruction, Marxism, feminism, and Freudian, Jungian and evolutionary psychology help us understand an issue so central to the act of reading.

Magical Realism and the Fantastic
Magical Realism and the Fantastic

Author: Amaryll Beatrice Chanady

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1000639053

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Every reader of literature interprets the literary text on the basis of information they have acquired from previous reading, and according to norms they have established, either consciously or not, with regard to a work of literature. In this study, originally published in 1985, the author clarifies the concepts of magical realism and the fantastic, and establishes a series of guidelines that will allow us to distinguish between the two similar yet independent modes. The reader will thus be able to identify the implicit framework upon which the author of the fantastic and of magical realism bases their text.

Speaking of the Fantastic III
Speaking of the Fantastic III

Author: Darrell Schweitzer

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2012-07-09

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1434448460

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Darrell Schweitzer interviews seventeen science fiction writers. Included are scintillating conversations with: George R. R. Martin, James Morrow, Jack Dann, Geoffrey A. Landis, Joe W. Haldeman, Zoran Zivkovic, Esther M. Friesner, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Harry Turtledove, Gregory Frost, Tom Purdom, D. G. Compton, Robert J. Sawyer, Charles Stross, Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, and Howard Waldrop.

On the Uses of the Fantastic in Modern Theatre
On the Uses of the Fantastic in Modern Theatre

Author: I. Eynat-Confino

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-11-24

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0230616968

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The book reveals how the fantastic is used in modern theatre as a manipulative device to encode the unspeakable and control audience response, challenging conventional readings of all authors who use the fantastic.

The Weiser Book of the Fantastic and Forgotten
The Weiser Book of the Fantastic and Forgotten

Author: Judika Illes

Publisher: Weiser Books

Published: 2016-10-01

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1633410390

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Classic stories of occult fiction by Dion Fortune, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, H. P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Marie Corelli, R. W. Chambers, and more. These are the authors and tales that inspired modern masters like Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and Nic Pizzolatto—edited and introduced by leading occult author and scholar Judika Illes. These powerfully evocative stories—some of which have been forgotten over the years, like buried treasure—will thrill and chill readers to the bone. During the dark, eerie hours, when the wind is blowing and the ghosts are roaming outside, these tales can fill a night with pleasant terror—as well as encouraging our minds to venture beyond the mundane into the realm of the fantastic.

The Fantastic Freewheeler and the Second Superhero
The Fantastic Freewheeler and the Second Superhero

Author: Molly Felder

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2025

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 1669081222

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While enjoying a day at the amusement park, the Fantastic Freewheeler meets another superpowered kid and must help her see the value in her own abilities so they can join forces and stop an out-of-control cotton candy machine.

Mushrooming: An Illustrated Guide to the Fantastic, Delicious, Deadly, and Strange World of Fungi
Mushrooming: An Illustrated Guide to the Fantastic, Delicious, Deadly, and Strange World of Fungi

Author: Diane Borsato

Publisher: The Experiment, LLC

Published: 2023-02-28

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1615199594

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“A merry, idiosyncratic guide, charmingly illustrated.”—Eugenia Bone, The Wall Street Journal An illustrated guide to over 100 types of mushrooms, offering insights and stories about these mysterious organisms An incredible diversity of fungi is flourishing all around us, not just in the forest but in parks, markets, and even museums. Once you know how to look, you can find mushrooms named after fairies and demons, mushrooms that look so much like woodland birds they are shot at by hunters, mushrooms that glow in the dark . . . and so much more. Beyond serving as a guide for identification, Mushrooming explores how “the quiet hunt” can radically expand our perspectives, connect us to nature, and enrich our lives. Whether you’re a beginner forager or an expert mycophile, this is the perfect handbook to spark your curiosity and deepen your appreciation for the fantastic, delicious, deadly, and strange world of fungi.

Filming the Fantastic: A Guide to Visual Effects Cinematography
Filming the Fantastic: A Guide to Visual Effects Cinematography

Author: Mark Sawicki

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1136066624

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Don't waste valuable time and budget fixing your footage in post! Shoot the effects you want effectively and creatively the first time. This full-color step-by step guide to visual effects cinematography empowers you to plan out and execute visual effects shots on a budget, without falling into the common pitfall of using high-end computer graphics to "fix it in post. Learn how to effectively photograph foreground miniatures, matte paintings, green screen set ups, miniatures, crowd replication, explosions, and so much more to create elements that will composite together flawlessly. Filming the Fantastic focuses on the art and craft of visual effects using real case scenarios from a visual effects cameraman. These lessons from the front line will give you ideas and insight so you can translate your skills into any situation, no matter what camera or software package you are using and no matter if you are using film or digital technology. Learn how to film your fantastic visual effects with this book!

State of the Fantastic
State of the Fantastic

Author: Nicholas Ruddick

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1992-07-22

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13:

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This collection of twenty essays originally presented at the Eleventh International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts contains five parts: on fantasists and their work, contemporary fantastic theory and practice, studies in the British and European fantastic, studies in American fantasy and science fiction, and sex and techno-horror in fantastic literature and film. What all the essays here have in common is that their authors are all aware of the tremendous latent power, for good and ill, of the fantastic text. We are given timely reminders of the dangers, as well as the appeal, of elves and how narrators in fantastic fictions take advantage of our desire to be part of a narrative community. We learn how some contemporary fantasists assimilate literary and scientific theory, while others seem in their fiction to require a new sociology to account for it.