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dc.contributor.advisorTorchin, Leshu
dc.contributor.authorShields, Amber
dc.coverage.spatial[9], 238 p.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-11T08:24:26Z
dc.date.available2018-09-11T08:24:26Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/16004
dc.description.abstractWhile fantasy as a genre is often dismissed as frivolous and inappropriate, it is highly relevant in representing and working through trauma. The fantasy genre presents spectators with images of the unsettled and unresolved, taking them on a journey through a world in which the familiar is rendered unfamiliar. It positions itself as an in-between, while the consequential disturbance of recognized world orders lends this genre to relating stories of trauma themselves characterized by hauntings, disputed memories, and irresolution. Through an examination of films from around the world and their depictions of individual and collective traumas through the fantastic, this thesis outlines how fantasy succeeds in representing and challenging histories of violence, silence, and irresolution. Further, it also examines how the genre itself is transformed in relating stories that are not yet resolved. While analysing the modes in which the fantasy genre mediates and intercedes trauma narratives, this research contributes to a wider recognition of an understudied and underestimated genre, as well as to discourses on how trauma is narrated and negotiated.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of St Andrews
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectFantasyen_US
dc.subjectTraumaen_US
dc.subjectFairytaleen_US
dc.subject.lccPN1995.9F36S5
dc.subject.lcshFantasy filmsen
dc.subject.lcshPsychic trauma in motion picturesen
dc.subject.lcshFairy tales in motion picturesen
dc.titleIn-between worlds : exploring trauma through fantasyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US


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