The Music of Fantasy Cinema

by Janet K. Halfyard

Book Overview

Fantasy has had a modern resurgence in cinema due largely to the success of superhero narratives and the two major fantasy series, the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. Often regarded as mere escapism, works of both literature and cinema wishing to be taken seriously by the public, by critics and by academics have tended to shelter under the euphemistic umbrella of Magic Realism and, until very recently, there has been a general lack of serious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781791007
• ISBN13: 9781781791004
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"