Impending Crises: Contemporary Fantastic Narratives between Language, Image and Sound

Prof. Dr. Julia Brühne; Pádraic Wilson; Joaquín Orlando Valenzuela Celis

doi:10.5771/9783988580122

Summary

Over the last few decades, increased production of films and series that have fantastical structures has been observed, especially in Romance language-speaking countries and the US. A renewed boom in the genre is thus apparent in those nations which had already been at the epicentre of the production of fantastic narratives in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of the contemporary works convey a latent ontological uncertainty that arises from unusual handling of language, images and sound. The articles in this book examine the question of whether and how images, sounds and dialogues in fantastic films/series—and, sometimes, novels—that have gone off the rails can be interpreted as allegorical counterparts of contemporary thinking in society which has also gone awry.

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Copyright Year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-3-98858-011-5
ISBN-Online: 978-3-98858-012-2
Publisher: Rombach Wissenschaft, Baden-Baden
Series: Calliphaea. Literatur – Theater – Film
Volume: 1
Language: German
Pages: 254
Product Type: Monograph

Titelei/InhaltsverzeichnisPages 1 - 8 Download chapter (PDF)
Opening RemarksPages 9 - 18
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1. I. Intro: Three Days of the Condor
2. 1. Saussure: Value and Democracy
  2. Better Call Caul
3. III. Avoiding Peripeties: Headless in Argentina
4. IV. Outro: Are you happy, Mrs. Brannock? The Watcher
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5. Literatur- und Quellenverzeichnis
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1. 1. Introduction
2. 2. What’s love got to do with it: Eros, Polis, and Political Allegory
3. 3. The Fantastic and the Black Square, or Always Trouble with the European truc
4. 4. »Je suis pas un voleur«: The Postman and the Yellow Vests
5. 5. Louise vs Karl, or Marx as the Symptom of Post-Democracy
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1. 1. Der literarische Skandal: Ein Ereignis-Format mit Indiziencharakter
2. 1. 2.1 Unzuverlässiges Erzählen
  2. 2.2 Simuliertes Versteckspiel: Narrative Verzerrungen im Dienste einer phantastischen Unschlüssigkeitsdynamik
  3. 2.3 Aporien rationaler Plausibilisierungsprozesse
3. 3. Phantastik im Dienste einer Krisenästhetik
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1. The French and/or European crisis of the decline of the agricultural economy
2. The social crisis of the family, of gender and role models
3. The moral crisis of humans in dealing with animals and the nature
4. The ecological or climatic crisis of the Anthropocene
5. The crisis of the body and desire.
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1. 1. Atlantique/Atlantics – a fantastic film?
2. 1. 2.1. The allegorical-political interpretation
  2. 2.2. The culturalist-mythical interpretation
3. 3. Decolonizing the fantastic, ‘fantastizing’ the postcolonial. Postcolonial and fantastic interferences
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1. 1. Introduction: A contemporary fantastic novel and its movie adaptation
2. 2. The movie’s plot
3. 3. The fantastic in Distancia de rescate: Techniques
4. 4. The fantastic in Distancia de rescate and in contemporary cinema: Interpretation
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1. Bibliografía
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1. Introducción
2. Una crítica latinoamericana del delirio narrativo en Twin Peaks (temporada 3)
3. Algunas conclusiones
4. Bibliografía
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