Fantasy films as a postmodern phenomenon
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Date
2011Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
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Abstract
The aim of this research is to analyze the fantasy fiction genre films
as a postmodern phenomenon. With various ways of looking into the
texts, the study focuses on the narrative structure of the fantasy
formations with a postmodern perspective. This thesis firstly
investigates the fantasy genre films as a whole by conducting a
research on the fantasy films database. From this point, the
boundary of the definition for fantasy genre is argued. With using
psychoanalysis along with Tolkienian and mystic way of looking into
texts, this thesis finds connections to the postmodern features of
these narrative structures. In this context the film Lord of the Rings
(2001, Peter Jackson) is analyzed through these ways of looking into
texts. Specifically the notions of time, historicism and subject were
examined through postmodern theory. Thus, the features of the
narrative structure indicate postmodern tendencies.