Summary and Analysis of Katherine Fowkes’s Fantasy Films
A Rhetoric Analysis consists of a multitude of attributes some larger than others and some not specifically require. Among those are certain attributes that are what provides the foundation of any Rhetoric work, Logos, Pathos, and Ethos or persuasive appeal. My job is to show you the other attributes consisting of the context of the argument, the authors’ attitude, and the tone of the overall work. So first I will have to fill you in to Katherine Fowkes’s work.
Katherine A. Fowkes in Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film, Vol. 2 she explains the notion of fantasy in traditional application of film through her chapter Fantasy Films. She defines its context in this chapter by “films featuring characters, events, or setting that are improbable or impossible in the world as we know it (Fowkes 187).” She states that fantasy is more specific to the entirety of the movies as opposed to such an as single isolated event. Science fiction and horror genre are argued to be part of a separate genre. Where-as if one were to consider fantasy as a mode science fiction and horror would fall in a sub-genre of it.
Genre of fantasy when in the thought of horror and science fiction as facets of it, still are different and distinct purviews. Such as fantasy although most film has some logical bases they have no bounds and wizards or flying carpets exist. Science fiction on the other hand adheres to a set of rules, guidelines, or barriers that adhering to some kind of plausible scenario denying anything without those criteria met. Fowkes then goes on to mention that much of the time genres blend in films, like when a science fiction film tries to incorporate horror into it. Aliens might be a good example of this idea or The Wizard of Oz where fantasy meets musical.
Through the ages of fantasy on film filmmaker have try to escalate stories through different means. In the early stages filmmakers used trick
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