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Fantasy Film Genre

Fantasy Films


Film genres are categories, classifications or groups of films that have similar, familiar or instantly-recognizable patterns, techniques or conventions that include one or more of the following: setting, content, themes, plot, motifs, styles, structures, situations, characters (or characterizations), and stars.
The genre that I chose to review was that of the fantasy genre in films. In general, “fantasy” is fiction in which things can exist and happen that would not normally exist and happen in our waking lives. Unlike science fiction, it is permissible in fantasy to violate physical laws as we know them, even to flout logic itself--although most modern readers favour stories in which fantasy elements are consistent within themselves.
Though modern fantasy fiction is usually set in a world other than our own, this is not necessarily the case. Much of dark fantasy and magic realism is set in our world, with only minimal fantastic elements.
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Posted by: Jason Cashmere

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