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Fantasy Film: A Critical Introduction
James Walters
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Description for Fantasy Film: A Critical Introduction
Paperback. An innovative introduction to the key aspects of fantasy film, which will be invaluable to students or fans of the fantasy genre. Series: Film Genres. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 266.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Series
Film Genres
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847883087
SKU
V9781847883087
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About James Walters
James Walters is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Birmingham and author of Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema and co-editor of Film Moments: Criticism, History, Theory.
Reviews for Fantasy Film: A Critical Introduction
"James Walters provides an illuminating study of fantasy as an important mode in cinema, exploring a spectrum of films from Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once to Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings epic trilogy."
Christina Lee, Curtin University of Technology
Christina Lee, Curtin University of Technology