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dc.contributor.authorHaupts, Tobias
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-30T17:08:58Z
dc.date.available2023-01-30T17:08:58Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifierONIX_20230130_9783110990799_92
dc.identifier.issn2626-9198
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61134
dc.languageGerman
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCinepoetics Essay
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinemaen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticismen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: generalen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studiesen_US
dc.subject.otherGenre history
dc.subject.otherfantasy studies
dc.subject.otherfilm history
dc.titleUS-Fantasy 1977–1987
dc.title.alternativeEine Genrebetrachtung
dc.typebook
oapen.abstract.otherlanguageAt the end of the 1970s, a new genre cycle was formed in US cinema. Starting with space opera in cinema, for which George Lucas' Star Wars is paradigmatic, fantasy established itself for the first time as an independent cinematic genre in distinction from fairy tales and fantastic fiction. The enthusiasm for pen & paper role-playing games and the continuing J. R. R. Tolkien craze culminated in the following years in a series of films that absorbed, pushed and further developed the diversity of modern film technology and production: the spectrum of films ranged from live-action films (Conan the Barbarian) to puppet animation (The Dark Crystal) to animated films (The Last Unicorn), in which George Lucas as well as Jim Henson and the production companies behind them at the time played leading roles. Contemporary critics had written these films off as conservative, sometimes even reactionary genre plays. In contrast, this essay unfolds a (historical) poetics of the US fantasy film. With its film-analytical case studies, the volume shows how the films of the years 1977 to 1987 are embedded in a specific film culture and how the genre cycle as part of the Hollywood system prepared and significantly influenced the triumph of blockbuster cinema in the 1990s.
oapen.identifier.doi10.1515/9783110990799
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy2b386f62-fc18-4108-bcf1-ade3ed4cf2f3
oapen.relation.isbn9783110990799
oapen.relation.isbn9783111000374
oapen.relation.isbn9783110995640
oapen.imprintDe Gruyter
oapen.series.number2
oapen.pages149
oapen.place.publicationBerlin/Boston


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