| 紀錄類型: |
書目-電子資源
: 單行本
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| 作者: |
Pheasant-KellyFrances, 1960- |
| 出版地: |
New York, New York |
| 出版者: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| 出版年: |
2013 |
| 面頁冊數: |
1 online resource (viii, 211 p.)ill. : |
| 標題: |
Fantasy films - History and criticism. - |
| 標題: |
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 - Influence. - |
| 標題: |
ART / Film & Video - |
| 標題: |
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Reference - |
| 電子資源: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230392137 |
| 附註: |
Description based on print version record. |
| 摘要註: |
Examining a range of popular fantasy films released in the past decade, including the Harry Potter films, Jackson's Lord of the Rings series, and the Pirates of the Caribbean movies through to The Dark Knight and Avatar, this book explores the reasons for these films' incredible success. Pheasant-Kelly explores the meaningfulness of such films to current audiences while considering how technology, spectacle, and an increasing affinity for magic and mysticism have been important in promoting the turn to fantasy. The imagery and themes reflecting 9/11, new millennial anxieties, the war on terror, and environmental disasters have furthered fantasy's rise to dominance. Fantasies offer ways to subconsciously re-enact or work through traumatic memories of these issues for viewers reluctant to witness real images of death and destruction. |
| ISBN: |
9780230392137electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
023039213Xelectronic bk. |
| 內容註: |
Introduction Settings, spectacle, and the other: picturing disgust in Jackson's The lord of the rings trilogy Bewitching, abject, uncanny: magical spectacle in the Harry Potter films Pirate politics and the spectacle of the Other: Pirates of the Caribbean Resurrection, anthropomorphism, and Cold War echoes in Adamson's The chronicles of Narnia: the lion, the witch and the wardrobe The aesthetics of trauma: temporality, and multidirectional memory in Pan's labyrinth Reframing the Cold War in the twenty-first century: action, nostalgia and nuclear holocaust in Indiana Jones and The kingdom of the crystal skull The ecstasy of chaos: mediating 9/11, terrorism and trauma in The dark knight Wounding, morality and torture: reflections of the War on Terror in Iron man and Iron man 2 Shock and awe: terror, technology, and the sublime nature of Cameron's Avatar Conclusion. |