... Todorov’s influential essay on the fantastic. Nevertheless, the Italian fantastic was re-conceptualised as an inherently highbrow, intellectual genre. As a consequence, popular literature and trans-medial contaminations were inevitably belittled. In our introduction, we argue that, on the contrary...

... tension with the generic conventions emphasising the fantastic elements of martial arts film. This chapter examines the reduced status of these fantastic features of the film, the way that Hou’s style naturalises and, indeed, construes them as realistic components of the narrative, and how these seemingly...

...This chapter studies two recent Chinese co-productions, Born in China (2016) and Wolf Totem (2015), which foreground the construction of the indexical and the fantastic wildlife in the very process of renegotiating the parameters of Chinese cinema. Navigating...

...This chapter analyses the ideological framework of Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s beloved children’s book. This film addresses various Romantic conceptions of childhood, personal and cultural history, and the natural world in relation to the self...

...This introductory chapter explains the theme of this book, which is about the gothic and fantastic writing of Scottish women. The book proposes an earlier date for the fantastic revival and begins its investigation in 1978, the publication date of Emma Tennant's The Bad Sister...

...This chapter analyses the issues of quests and other worlds in the contemporary fantastic writings of Scottish women, explaining that magical journeys to other worlds embody the metaphor of border crossing and the overcoming of familiar thresholds to explore the ‘other’. It describes...

...This chapter considers the revenant motif in fantastic writings of Scottish women. It explains that this motif serves as the paradoxical site of theoretical discourses about corporeality and ethereality, life and death, and seen and unseen. The chapter offers an interpretation of Elspeth Barker's...

... into this special affection, it also develops modes that enable the feeling of the fantastic – seeing things with human eyes that only seem to exist in the imagination. Classical cinema thus develops a mode that relies upon the transposability and translocatability of the medium to structure a relation...

... the utter necessity and interdependence of the machine and the event for thought and interpretation of the world that erases easy or clear distinctions between subjects and objects, machines and nature. animation Burgin Victor camera Dali Salvador Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore ‘Giraffes...

...Although Chinese film audiences, including those in the PRC, Taiwan and Hong Kong, have always maintained a foundational cultural interest in the fantastic, this trend has dramatically increased over the last decade. Sino-Enchantment is the first work in English to approach...

...This chapter focuses on the topic of witches in contemporary fantastic writings of Scottish women. It analyses Ellen Galford's Queendom Come, Alice Thompson's Pandora's Box and Ali Smith's The Accidental. The chapter suggests that the witch...

...This chapter explores the conditions that led to the evolution of juvenile print cultures and recreational reading practices in Ireland, indicating a shift towards child-centrism and publication of fantastic narratives in the indigenous press as opposed to contemporary publication trends in Great...

...As a theorist, Scott opposed what he perceived to be the formal unscrupulousness of the fantastic. As a practitioner, he appreciated the new ways in which the mode could endlessly shape his storytelling, confident in both his own honed craftsmanship and his long-established reputation as a reliable...

...This chapter identifies the fantastic as a crucial element that makes Zhang Yimou’s Hero (2002) the first successful locally grown blockbuster in China. In addition to a high budget and all-star cast, Hero distinguished itself from many previous failed blockbuster...

...This chapter uses Hong Kong commercial filmmaker Ho Meng-hua and his fantastic work to address three main lines of inquiry: the articulations of the fantastic mode across different genres, the kinds of mise-en-scène of desire facilitated by the public forms of generic conventions, and the sorts...

...In the coda that concludes this volume, the book’s editors confront COVID-19 as a global phenomenon that forces into view cultural anxieties about critical work on fantastic Chinese cinema. The key question the pandemic raises is not just the significance of studying the fantastic as a cinematic...

...-obsessed protagonist, who may or may not be descending into madness. Kaufman conjures sublime feeling in the spectator through aesthetic devices of fantastic world creation. These include the creation of mise en abyme and an engagement with Tzvetan Todorov’s fantastic ‘themes of the self’ and ‘themes...

... syuzhet Mann Aimee Toles George Walton Kendall Clayton Alex cognitivist film studies Perkins V F Willemsen Steven metalepsis the fantastic Gérard Genette Étienne Souriau rhetoric diegesis Stories within stories are anything but rare in the cinema. An arbitrary and highly selective list...

...This chapter explores the double motif, a thematic area deployed to express the self/other dichotomy and the interrogation of binary oppositions in the fantastic writings of Scottish women. It offers an interpretation of Alison Fell's The Bad Box, Emma Tennant's The Bad...