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Flights of Fancy: The Great Fantasy Films

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Von Gunden's _Flights of Fantasy: The Great Fantasy Films_ highlights fifteen live-action, fantasy films, each reflective of a specific subgenre, produced from the 1930s to the 1980s and includes a number of stills from each production. Each chapter opens with a survey of the film's reception by critics, and this is followed by a summary of the film and then some type of discussion of its creation, which often includes a detailed section offering background information on the cast, crew, source text, and/or subgenre. An appendix offers details on related films.

Contents are as follows:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Beauty and the Beast: The Classic Fairy Tale 1
2 Conan the Barbarian: Sword and Sorcery 14
3 The Dark Crystal: Other Worlds, Other Times 30
4 Dragonslayer: Mythic Beasts/Genrebuster 45
5 The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T: A Child's Fantasy 58
6 It's a Wonderful Life: The Guardian Angel 70
7 Jason and the Argonauts: Ancient Mythology 86
8 King Kong: The Giant Monster 103
9 Lost Horizon: The Hidden Paradise 120
10 Popeye: The Comic Strip Hero 139
11 Superman: The Super Hero 153
12 Thief of Bagdad: Arabian Nights 170
13 Time Bandits: Child as Hero 186
14 Topper: The Ghost Story 200
15 The Wizard of Oz: The Fabulous Journey 211
Filmography: Cast and Crew Credits 231
App: Information on Other Films, Actors, and Awards 245
Bibliography 275
Index 281

So bad. How can people write a book about movie this boring. This book will be more useful as kitchen towel than reading. Stronger than any sleep aid And It says he is faculty in PSU, I'm not sure about that I check and he comes out as waged stuff? I do not know what exactly it means but isn't janitor wage stuff too? So boring book.