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03254aam a2200385 i 4500 001 1AD28B10BFA611ECA5AD8FDE3CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220419010024 008 210106s2021 nyua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781438484587 020 $a 1438484585 020 $a 9781438484594 020 $a 1438484593 035 $a (OCoLC)1229031113 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d EZC $d OCLCF $d CDX $d OCLCO $d BBW $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PN1995.9.F36 $b S47 2021 082 04 $a 791.4/3615 $2 23 100 1 $a Sergeant, Alexander, $e author. 245 10 $a Encountering the impossible : $b the fantastic in Hollywood fantasy cinema / $c Alexander Sergeant. 264 1 $a Albany : $b SUNY Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xiv, 252 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a The SUNY series, horizons of cinema 520 $a Hollywood fantasy cinema is responsible for some of the most lucrative franchises produced over the past two decades, yet it remains difficult to find popular or critical consensus on what the experience of watching fantasy cinema actually entails. What makes something a fantasy film, and what unique pleasures does the genre offer? In Encountering the Impossible, Alexander Sergeant solves the riddle of the fantasy film by theorizing the underlying experience of imagination alluded to in scholarly discussions of the genre. Drawing principally on the psychoanalysis of Melanie Klein and D.W. Winnicott, Sergeant considers the way in which fantasy cinema rejects Hollywood's typically naturalistic mode of address to generate an alternative experience that Sergeant refers to as the fantastic, a way of approaching cinema that embraces the illusory nature of the medium as part of the pleasure of the experience. Analyzing such canonical Hollywood fantasy films as The Wizard of Oz, It's a Wonderful Life, Mary Poppins, Conan the Barbarian, and The Lord of the Rings movies, Sergeant theorizes how fantasy cinema provides a unique film experience throughout its ubiquitous presence in the history of Hollywood film production. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-243) and index. 505 00 $t Interpreting the Fantastic: Contemporary Fantasy Cinema and Symbol Formation, 1992-2018 -- $t Continuity and Cathexis: Character, Space, and Time in the Classical Hollywood Fantasy Film, 1930-1945 -- $t Wonder Film: Postclassical Fantasy Cinema and Phantasies of Introjection, 1946-1975 -- $t High Fantasy Blockbusters: Alternative Worlds and Phantasies of Projection, 1976-1991 -- $t Interpreting the Fantastic: Contemporary Fantasy Cinema and Symbol Formation, 1992-2018 -- $g Conclusion: The Fantastic Beyond Hollywood Fantasy Cinema. 650 0 $a Fantasy films $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Fantasy films $x Production and direction. 650 7 $a Fantasy films. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00920825 650 7 $a Fantasy films $x Production and direction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00920828 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 $a SUNY series, horizons of cinema. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117030447.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230405012217.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1AD28B10BFA611ECA5AD8FDE3CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search