The Fantasy Film

The Fantasy Film
Author: Katherine A. Fowkes
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2010-01-26
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781444320596

The Fantasy Film provides a clear and compelling overview of this revitalized and explosively popular film genre. Includes analyses of a wide range of films, from early classics such as The Wizard of Oz and Harvey to Spiderman and Shrek, and blockbuster series such as The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Harry Potter films Provides in-depth historical and critical overviews of the genre Fully illustrated with screen shots from key films

Writing the Fantasy Film

Writing the Fantasy Film
Author: Sable Jak
Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2004
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

From it's a Wonderful Life, to Star Wars, fantasy is not bound by a specific formula. It spans all genres, times and locals, and has contributed to the folklore and literature of every culture around the world. Writing the fantasy film guides you through the fantasy script process, without having to sprinkle the fairy dust.

Creeping Flesh

Creeping Flesh
Author: David Kerekes
Publisher: Critical Vision
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2003
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781900486361

Taking its cue from the horror film fanzines of yesteryear... Horror and fantasy cinema from around the world with a distinctive retro sensibility, Creeping Flesh focuses on obscure and vilified horror movies, the discovery of "lost" films, BBC telefantasy, and an appreciation of American and British exploitation. Book jacket.

Flights of Fancy

Flights of Fancy
Author: Kenneth Von Gunden
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2001-09-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780786412143

In-depth analyses are presented of 15 superior films, each one representing a subgenre of fantasy cinema--Beauty and the Beast, Conan the Barbarian, The Dark Crystal, Dragonslayer, 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, It's a Wonderful Life, Jason and the Argonauts, King Kong, Lost Horizon, Popeye, Superman, The Thief of Baghdad, Time Bandits, Topper, and The Wizard of Oz. A chapter is devoted to each film, providing a plot summary and detailed information about cast and crew, special effects (stop-motion animation, miniatures, hanging miniatures, optical effects, tricks of perspective, blue screens, matte paintings, glass shots, reverse projection, slow motion, rear and front projection, etc.), and strengths and weaknesses, as well as explorations of the film's relationship to written fantasy, other films, and cultural myths.

Top 100 Fantasy Movies

Top 100 Fantasy Movies
Author: Gary Gerani
Publisher: Top 100
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Fantasy films
ISBN: 9781613775240

The film critiques within represent the author's choices for the cinema's most significant fantasy endeavors.

Fantasy

Fantasy
Author: Jacqueline Furby
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2011-09-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136640746

This book considers fantasy film and its relationship to myth, legend and fairytale, examining its important role in contemporary culture. It provides an historical overview of the genre and its evolution, contextualising each fantasy film within its socio-cultural period and with reference to relevant critical theory.

Fantasy Fiction into Film

Fantasy Fiction into Film
Author: Leslie Stratyner
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2007-08-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786430575

This work examines the symbolism of fantasy fiction, literal and figurative representation in fantastic film adaptations, and the imaginative differences between page and screen. Essays focus on movies adapted from various types of fantasy fiction--novels, short stories and graphic novels--and study the transformation and literal translation from text to film in the Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Howl's Moving Castle, Finding Neverland, The Wizard of Oz, Wicked and Practical Magic.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Flashbacks

Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Flashbacks
Author: Tom Weaver
Publisher:
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

As a 12-year-old, Richard Eyer costarred with Robby the Robot. In Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Paul Mantee's costar was a monkey named Barney who received billing as Mona, the Woolly Monkey. Actress Randy Stuart played the wife of The Incredible Shrinking Man. Alan Caillou wrote the original pilot outline for television's The Six Million Dollar Man. Asked to look over the final script six months later, he noticed that exactly one of his lines was being used (and that out of context) and that 27 writers were being given writing credit!Tom Weaver--author of Attack of the Monster Movie Makers, Science Fiction Stars and Horror Heroes, They Fought in the Creature Features, and Interviews with B Science Fiction and Horror Movie Makers--returns with a new collection of interviews that go behind the scenes of Golden Age science fiction, horror and fantasy filmmaking. Among the interviewed are Casey Adams, John Badham, Antony Carbone, Robert Clarke, Sidney Hayers, Lewis Allen, Gene Evans, Alex Gordon, Jackie Joseph, Ken Miller, John Moxey, Arthur Ross, Arianne Ulmer, Debra Paget and Edward Dmytryk.

Framing Monsters

Framing Monsters
Author: Joshua David Bellin
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2005
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780809326242

Beginning with celebrated classics, the author locates King Kong (1933) within the era of lynching to evince how the film protects whiteness against supposed aggressions of a black predator and reviews The Wizard of Oz (1939) as a product of the Depression's economic anxieties. From there, the study moves to the cult classic animated Sinbad Trilogy (1958-1977) of Ray Harryhausen, films rampant with xenophobic fears of the Middle East as relevant today as when the series was originally produced. Advancing to more recent subjects, the author focuses on the image of the monstrous woman and the threat of reproductive freedom found in Aliens (1986), Jurassic Park (1993), and Species (1995) and on depictions of the mentally ill as dangerous deviants in 12 Monkeys (1996) and The Cell (2000). An investigation into physical freakishness guides his approach to Edward Scissorhands (1990) and Beauty and the Beast (1991).