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Suburban Fantastic Cinema

Author : Angus McFadzean
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023154863X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Suburban Fantastic Cinema written by Angus McFadzean and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suburban Fantastic Cinema is a study of American movies in which preteen and teenage boys living in the suburbs are called upon to combat a disruptive force that takes the form of popular cultural figures of the fantastic—aliens, ghosts, vampires, demons, and more. Beginning in the 1980s with Poltergeist and E.T. (both 1982) and a cycle of films made by Amblin Entertainment, the suburban fantastic established itself as a popular commercial model combining coming-of-age melodramas with elements drawn from science fiction, fantasy, and horror. The films that exemplify the subgenre generally focus on a young male protagonist who, at the outset, chafes at his stifling suburban milieu, wherein power is invested in whiteness, maleness, and heterosexuality. A fantastic occurrence intervenes - the arrival of an alien, a ghost, or some other magical or otherworldly force - threatening this familiar order, thrusting the young man - at first unwittingly - into the role of defender and upholder of the social order. He is able to rescue the suburban social order, and in doing so normalizes (for himself and for the primarily white, male, adolescent audience) its values. This study discusses some of the key instances of this subgenre, such as Gremlins (1984), Back to the Future (1985), Jumanji (1995), and Small Soldiers (1998), as well as its more recent resurgence in Stranger Things (2016–) and IT (2017). Exploring the importance of suburbia as a setting and the questionable ideological blindness of its heroes, this book reveals these underappreciated Hollywood films as the primary cinematic representation of late-twentieth-century American childhood.

Fantastic Cinema

Author : Peter Nicholls
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Cinema written by Peter Nicholls and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cinema of the Fantastic

Author : Chris Steinbrunner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Cinema of the Fantastic written by Chris Steinbrunner and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encountering the Impossible

Author : Alexander Sergeant
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438484607
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Encountering the Impossible written by Alexander Sergeant and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The World of Fantastic Films

Author : Peter Nicholls
Publisher : Dodd Mead
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The World of Fantastic Films written by Peter Nicholls and published by Dodd Mead. This book was released on 1984 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filmograpy: p. (180)-221. Discusses the rise of the fantasy movie from 1950 to 1984.

Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination

Author : Matthew Solomon
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438435827
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination written by Matthew Solomon and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Translating Time

Author : Bliss Cua Lim
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 082239099X
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Translating Time written by Bliss Cua Lim and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-21 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under modernity, time is regarded as linear and measurable by clocks and calendars. Despite the historicity of clock-time itself, the modern concept of time is considered universal and culturally neutral. What Walter Benjamin called “homogeneous, empty time” founds the modern notions of progress and a uniform global present in which the past and other forms of time consciousness are seen as superseded. In Translating Time, Bliss Cua Lim argues that fantastic cinema depicts the coexistence of other modes of being alongside and within the modern present, disclosing multiple “immiscible temporalities” that strain against the modern concept of homogeneous time. In this wide-ranging study—encompassing Asian American video (On Cannibalism), ghost films from the New Cinema movements of Hong Kong and the Philippines (Rouge, Itim, Haplos), Hollywood remakes of Asian horror films (Ju-on, The Grudge, A Tale of Two Sisters) and a Filipino horror film cycle on monstrous viscera suckers (Aswang)—Lim conceptualizes the fantastic as a form of temporal translation. The fantastic translates supernatural agency in secular terms while also exposing an untranslatable remainder, thereby undermining the fantasy of a singular national time and emphasizing shifting temporalities of transnational reception. Lim interweaves scholarship on visuality with postcolonial historiography. She draws on Henri Bergson’s understanding of cinema as both implicated in homogeneous time and central to its critique, as well as on postcolonial thought linking the ideology of progress to imperialist expansion. At stake in this project are more ethical forms of understanding time that refuse to domesticate difference as anachronism. While supernaturalism is often disparaged as a vestige of primitive or superstitious thought, Lim suggests an alternative interpretation of the fantastic as a mode of resistance to the ascendancy of homogeneous time and a starting-point for more ethical temporal imaginings.

Mondo Macabro

Author : Pete Tombs
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312187483
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Mondo Macabro written by Pete Tombs and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-04-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of "Immoral Tales" now brings readers into the exotic, erotic, and eccentric international film scene. Fully illustrated, this book includes an Indian song-and-dance version of "Dracula"; Turkish version of "Star Trek" and "Superman"; China's "hopping vampire" films, and much more. 332 illustrations. of color photos.

Mushroom Clouds and Mushroom Men

Author : Peter H. Brothers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781449027711
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book Mushroom Clouds and Mushroom Men written by Peter H. Brothers and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, for the first time in English print, is the inspiring story of a humble and soft-spoken man who became one of the most-prolific directors in the history of fantasy films. Raised in a primitive Japanese village by a Buddhist monk, Ishiro Honda fell in love with films at a young age and soon enrolled in film school with the intent of one day becoming a director. Called to enlist in the Imperial Japanese Army druing World War II, he returned with a knowledge of the futility of war and a dread of the atomic age. A dedicated craftsman who directed over 80 films during a remarkable 60-plus year career, Honda is undeservedly remembered mostly as the "greatest director" of the famous Japanese monster film series; however, he was in fact much more. Utelizing a wide-variety of source material never before assembled into one volume, Mushroom Clouds and Mushroom Men is an objective critical analysis and definitve study of a man whose fantasy films -- when seen in their original versions -- are "beautiful nightmares" of quality and subtext which transcend the visceral thrill of watching monsters destroying cities. Honda's admirers include George Lucas, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg and his films are masterpieces of entertainment that have enthralled audiences for generations . . . and will for generations to come.

Fantastic Films

Author : Matt Anniss
Publisher : Badger Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784648221
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Films written by Matt Anniss and published by Badger Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever read a book and thought 'They should make this into a film'? If so, read on! Packed with fun facts and figures, Fantastic Films takes you behind the scenes of the movie-making process. Along the way, you'll find out how your favourite stories make it to the big screen, from Harry Potter and The Hunger Games, to Jurassic World and Guardians of the Galaxy. Famous Faces is a fantastic series of non-fiction books for struggling readers. It is comprised of eight titles, all written especially for pupils who have a lower reading age than their chronological age, and all designed to be fun and attention-grabbing. The series is pitched at 11-14 year olds with a lower reading age of just 9-10, and each title has a length of roughly 1600-1800 words. The books are packed full of engaging images, fantastic facts and fun layouts. Each chapter is short so struggling readers aren't daunted by the amount of text.

The Fantasy Film

Author : Katherine A. Fowkes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781444320596
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The Fantasy Film written by Katherine A. Fowkes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Studying Surrealist and Fantasy Cinema

Author : Neil Coombs
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studying Surrealist and Fantasy Cinema written by Neil Coombs and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pan's Labyrinth, Stranger Than Fiction, The Science of Sleep ... Surreal and fantastic cinema is enjoying a resurgence. A movement that goes back to the earliest days of cinema, it provides an exemplary case study to introduce all sorts of concepts--auteur study, representations, 'shocking cinema', textual analysis. Neil Coombs's guide is ideal for students new to the field, providing an explanation of the origins of Surrealism followed by detailed analyses from the history of 'world cinema', including: Bu uel's The Phantom of Liberty, Svankmajer's Alice, Cocteau's Orph e, Lynch's Lost Highway, Jeunet and Caro's The City of Lost Children, and the work of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich) and director David Cronenberg (A History of Violence).

Film Magic

Author : Don Dohler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780960377008
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Film Magic written by Don Dohler and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film

Author : R. G. Young
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557832696
Total Pages : 1028 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film written by R. G. Young and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-five years in the making, and destined to be the last word in fanta-film references! This incredible 1,017-page resource provides vital credits on over 9,000 films (1896-1999) of horror, fantasy, mystery, science fiction, heavy melodrama, and film noir. Comprehensive cast lists include: directors, writers, cinematographers, and composers. Also includes plot synopses, critiques, re-title/translation information, running times, photographs, and several cross-referenced indexes (by artist, year, song, etc.). Paperback.

Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Cinema

Author : Tom Lisanti
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147660116X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Cinema written by Tom Lisanti and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elvis Presley musicals, beach romps, biker flicks, and alienated youth movies were some of the most popular types of drive-in films during the sixties. The actresses interviewed for this book (including Celeste Yarnall, Lana Wood, Linda Harrison, Pamela Tiffin, Deanna Lund, Diane McBain, Judy Pace, and Chris Noel) all made their mark in these genres. These fantastic femmes could be found either twisting on the shores of Malibu, careening down the highway on a chopper, being serenaded by Elvis, or taking on the establishment as hip coeds. As cult figures, they contributed greatly to that period of filmmaking aimed at the teenage audience who frequented the drive-ins of America. They frolicked, screamed, and danced their way into B-movie history in such diverse films as Eve, Teenage Millionaire, The Girls on the Beach, Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, Three in the Attic, Wild in the Streets, and Paradise, Hawaiian Style. This book is a celebration of the actresses' careers. They have for the most part been overlooked in other publications documenting the history of film. Fantasy Femmes addresses their film and television careers, focusing on their view of the above genres, their candid comments and anecdotes about their films, the people they worked with, and their feelings in general regarding their lives and the choices they made. The book is well illuminated and contains a complete list of film and television credits.

Fantastic Cinema

Author : Peter Nicholls
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Cinema written by Peter Nicholls and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Filming the Fantastic

Author : Mark Sawicki
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0240809157
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Filming the Fantastic written by Mark Sawicki and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2007 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!l technology. Learn how to film your fantastic visual effects with this book!