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.
Table des matières
1. Settings, Spectacle, and the Other: Picturing Disgust in Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings Trilogy 2. Bewitching, Abject, Uncanny: Magical Spectacle in the Harry Potter Films 3. Pirate Politics and the Spectacle of the Other: Pirates of the Caribbean 4. Resurrection, Anthropomorphism, and Cold War Echoes in Adamson’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 5. The Aesthetics of Trauma: Temporality and Multidirectional Memory in Pan’s Labyrinth 6. Reframing the Cold War in the Twenty-First Century: Action, Nostalgia, and Nuclear Holocaust in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 7. The Ecstasy of Chaos: Mediating 9/11, Terrorism, and Trauma in The Dark Knight 8. Wounding, Morality, and Torture: Reflections of the War on Terror in Iron Man and Iron Man 2 9. Shock and Awe: Terror, Technology, and the Sublime Nature of Cameron’s AvatarA propos de l’auteur
Frances Pheasant-Kelly is a senior lecturer in Film Studies in the School of Law, Social Science and Communication at the University of Wolverhampton.
Langue Anglais ● Format PDF ● Pages 211 ● ISBN 9780230392137 ● Taille du fichier 2.1 MB ● Maison d’édition Palgrave Macmillan US ● Lieu New York ● Pays US ● Publié 2016 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 2712509 ● Protection contre la copie DRM sociale