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.
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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 AvatarTentang Penulis
Frances Pheasant-Kelly is a senior lecturer in Film Studies in the School of Law, Social Science and Communication at the University of Wolverhampton.
Bahasa Inggris ● Format PDF ● Halaman 211 ● ISBN 9780230392137 ● Ukuran file 2.1 MB ● Penerbit Palgrave Macmillan US ● Kota New York ● Negara US ● Diterbitkan 2016 ● Diunduh 24 bulan ● Mata uang EUR ● ID 2712509 ● Perlindungan salinan DRM sosial
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