Encountering the Impossible: The Fantastic in Hollywood Fantasy Cinema

2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleShortlisted for the 2022 Best First Monograph Award presented by the British Association...
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Author: Alexander Sergeant
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Encountering the Impossible: The Fantastic in Hollywood Fantasy Cinema by Sergeant, Alexander

Encountering the Impossible: The Fantastic in Hollywood Fantasy Cinema

$121.75

Encountering the Impossible: The Fantastic in Hollywood Fantasy Cinema

$121.75
Author: Alexander Sergeant
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Alexander Sergeant
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 01/02/2022
Pages: 268
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9781438484587


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