Titlebook: Reality and Fantasy in American Independent Cinema; A Cavellian Approach Rick Zinman Book 2024 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author

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Fantasies of Immortality, the Good Life and Romantic Love in , and among U.S. movie going audiences. Director Jim Jarmusch believes that watching formulaic, action-oriented blockbuster fantasy films impedes the imagination of individuals and decreases the likelihood that they will be inspired to develop new approaches to solving the urgent problems of post-industri

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Fantasy and Desire in Birdmanns of the film in support of my claim about its significance. First, . uses magical realism to blur the lines between reality and fantasy and to keep viewers in doubt about the status of events that they see on screen. Second, . creates a sense of what might be called “hyper-realism” by simulating a

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The Fantasy World of ity and distance from the reality of our world and there are no obvious scenes or episodes in the film that are visibly marked as fantastic phenomena, nor are fantastic phenomena inherent in the premise of the film or otherwise integral to the story. Instead, . uses various formal and narrative devi

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and the Mystery of Growing Up on Filmhat films have a special capacity to present the mystery and strangeness of the ordinary and to draw our attention to aspects of reality that we may have overlooked. A sense of uncanniness is associated with feelings of strangeness and vulnerability that occur when we fail to notice things that are

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Conclusionrather than its distance from reality. In addition to exploring new perspectives and interpretations on these films and making a meaningful contribution to the ongoing scholarship on the intentions, styles and methods of these important independent filmmakers, this book is intended to advance three

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Book 2024erated much greater scholarly interest in the study of fantasy films. It has also generated an artistic response by American Indie filmmakers who have developed alternative approaches to the portrayal of film fantasy. .Reality and Fantasy in American Indie Films: A Cavellian Approach .applies the me

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analysis of existing arguments made about the utopian and es.In the 21st century, blockbuster fantasy films have dominated film viewership in the United States. The increased popularity of fantasy films has generated much greater scholarly interest in the study of fantasy films. It has also generate

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Introduction,en reality and fantasy. I also explain why I believe that several of them deserve consideration as masterpieces of contemporary film art in the US, in large part, because of their examination of the roots of film magic and fantasy.

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Cavellian Fantasy Film Criticismfilms in ways that illuminate how those films can be said to engage in philosophy. Cavell’s film criticism also contains an important evaluative dimension which involves judgements about the aesthetic qualities of a film, both in terms of the film itself and how those aesthetic qualities relate to other films.