Framing Monsters: Fantasy Film and Social Alienation

by Joshua David Bellin and Joshua David Bellin

Book Overview

The canon of popular cinema has long been rife with fantastic tales, yet critical studies have too often expediently mixed the fantasy genre with its kindred science fiction and horror films or dismissed it altogether as escapist fare. Framing Monsters: Fantasy Film and Social Alienation reconsiders the cultural significance of this storytelling mode by investigating how films seemingly divorced from reality and presented in a context of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809326248
• ISBN13: 9780809326242
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 9.0"