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Fantasy


Defining fantasyWhat is fantasy?Portals and entry-pointsDesire and lossMagic or illusion?Animation: the case of Toy Story 3NOTESA historical overview of fantasy: From Ovid to Game Boy‘Orpheus and Eurydice’The One Thousand and One NightsThe Fairy QueenDance, music and toysEarly cinema and special effectsFantasy television and the hand-held screenNOTEAnimal fantasy for childrenMickey MouseFantasy animals as moral instructorsAnimal trickstersFantasy bearsHedgerow fantasyFarmyard and field fantasyNOTESFantasy questsThe epic questQuests for self-knowledge and social knowledgeDeath and the shadow-selfTotemic objectsMonstersNOTESFantasy and politicsProblematic politics in classic children’s fantasyComics and global animosityPolitical dystopias I: Nineteen Eighty-Four and ‘Escape from Spiderhead’Political dystopias II: The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and CrakeThe feminist utopiaNOTESFantasy and the eroticFantasy versus sexual fantasyVictorian erotic fantasyTwentieth-century pornotopias of deathWoman-centred desireCarnivorous sexual fantasy
 
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