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Framing Monsters: Fantasy Film and Social Alienation
Associate Professor Joshua David Bellin
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Description for Framing Monsters: Fantasy Film and Social Alienation
Paperback. Framing Monsters: Fantasy Film and Social Alienation reconsiders the cultural significance of this storytelling mode by investigating how films seemingly divorced from reality and presented in a context of timelessness are, in fact, encoded with the social beliefs of their era of production. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
The canon of popular cinema has long been rife with fantastic tales, yet critical studies have too often expediently mixed the fantasy genre with its kindred science fiction and horror films or dismissed it altogether as escapist fare. Framing Monsters: Fantasy Film and Social Alienation reconsiders the cultural significance of this storytelling mode by investigating how films seemingly divorced from reality and presented in a context of timelessness are, in fact, encoded with the social beliefs of their era of production. Situating representative fantasy films within their cultural moments, Joshua David Bellin illustrates how fantastic visions of monstrous others seek ... Read more
The canon of popular cinema has long been rife with fantastic tales, yet critical studies have too often expediently mixed the fantasy genre with its kindred science fiction and horror films or dismissed it altogether as escapist fare. Framing Monsters: Fantasy Film and Social Alienation reconsiders the cultural significance of this storytelling mode by investigating how films seemingly divorced from reality and presented in a context of timelessness are, in fact, encoded with the social beliefs of their era of production. Situating representative fantasy films within their cultural moments, Joshua David Bellin illustrates how fantastic visions of monstrous others seek ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809326242
SKU
V9780809326242
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About Associate Professor Joshua David Bellin
An associate professor of English at La Roche College in Pittsburgh, Joshua David Bellin is an amateur film-maker and the author of The Demon of the Continent: Indians and the Shaping of American Literature.
Reviews for Framing Monsters: Fantasy Film and Social Alienation
Framing Monsters is a significant study of the ideological workings of fantasy films from classics such as King Kong and The Wizard of Oz to contemporary favorites like Jurassic Park and Lord of the Rings. Invested as both fan and academic, Bellin meticulously argues that this genre reinforces structures of alienation relating to race, class, gender, and disability.-Rob Latham, author ... Read more