The Fantasy Film

The Fantasy Film

Author: Katherine A. Fowkes

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-01-26

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9781444320596

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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

Fantasy Film

Author: James Walters

Publisher: Berg

Published: 2011-06-01

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1847888429

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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

Writing the Fantasy Film

Author: Sable Jak

Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13:

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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.


Creeping Flesh

Creeping Flesh

Author: David Kerekes

Publisher: Critical Vision

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9781900486361

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Taking its cue from the horror film fanzines of yesteryear... Horror and fantasy cinema from around the world with a distinctive retro sensibility, Creeping Flesh focuses on obscure and vilified horror movies, the discovery of "lost" films, BBC telefantasy, and an appreciation of American and British exploitation. Book jacket.


Flights of Fancy

Flights of Fancy

Author: Kenneth Von Gunden

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2001-09-15

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780786412143

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In-depth analyses are presented of 15 superior films, each one representing a subgenre of fantasy cinema--Beauty and the Beast, Conan the Barbarian, The Dark Crystal, Dragonslayer, 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, It's a Wonderful Life, Jason and the Argonauts, King Kong, Lost Horizon, Popeye, Superman, The Thief of Baghdad, Time Bandits, Topper, and The Wizard of Oz. A chapter is devoted to each film, providing a plot summary and detailed information about cast and crew, special effects (stop-motion animation, miniatures, hanging miniatures, optical effects, tricks of perspective, blue screens, matte paintings, glass shots, reverse projection, slow motion, rear and front projection, etc.), and strengths and weaknesses, as well as explorations of the film's relationship to written fantasy, other films, and cultural myths.


Framing Monsters

Framing Monsters

Author: Joshua David Bellin

Publisher: SIU Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780809326242

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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).


Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Flashbacks

Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Flashbacks

Author: Tom Weaver

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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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.


Top 100 Fantasy Movies

Top 100 Fantasy Movies

Author: Gary Gerani

Publisher: Top 100

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781613775240

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


Fantasy

Fantasy

Author: Jacqueline Furby

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-09-02

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1136640746

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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.


Fantasy Film Post 9/11

Fantasy Film Post 9/11

Author: F. Pheasant-Kelly

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2013-03-26

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 9781349351831

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Examining a range of fantasy films released in the past decade, Pheasant-Kelly looks at why these films are meaningful to current audiences. The imagery and themes reflecting 9/11, millennial anxieties, and environmental disasters have furthered fantasy's rise to dominance as they allow viewers to work through traumatic memories of these issues.