Comments on: Joshua Bellin: Fantasy Film and Social Alienation

By: TheoFantastique | A meeting place for myth, imagination, and mystery in pop culture.

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 15:42:20 +0000

[...] as escapist entertainment with no connection to reality, this is not the case. Scholars like Joshua Bellin have argued that fantasy films are rightly the objects of critique for their problematic elements, [...]

By: TheoFantastique | A meeting place for myth, imagination, and mystery in pop culture.

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:32:44 +0000

[...] Terra. Joshua Bellin, author of Framing Monters, and a past guest here for two previous interviews, one on his book and the other contrasting the original King Kong with Peter Jackson’s remake, [...]

By: TheoFantastique | A meeting place for myth, mystery and imagination in pop culture.

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:39:20 +0000

[...] previous interview with Bellin on this topic as the thesis of his book can be found here, along with a second interview contrasting the original King Kong with Peter Jackson’s more [...]

By: TheoFantastique

TheoFantastique — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:53:01 +0000

[...] I interviewed Joshua Bellin, author of Framing Monsters: Fantasy Film and Social Alienation(Southern Illinois [...]

By: John W. Morehead

John W. Morehead — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:48:34 +0000

This sounds like my kind of community college class. I did something similar when teaching a course on theology and film for seminary. I used the original Planet of the Apes, coupled with sections of Eric Green’s book on the film that touches on how 1960s and 1970s issues of race work within the Apes series. This approach was well received. Now that I know about Bellin’s work I’d love to do a whole course on fantasy film and cultural analysis. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Chad.

By: Chad Helder

Chad Helder — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:39:11 +0000

I am a huge fan of the King Kong chapter, which I use as the basis of a King Kong unit in my English 101 class at the community college. First we watch the original King Kong and read Bellin’s chapter. The students respond to the claims in the chapter, which always succeeds in provoking a lot of discussion and analysis (and productive controversy). Then, we watch portions of the Jackson King Kong, and we compare/contrast the key issues, and how the story has changed over the time: the portrayal of Ann Darrow, the portrayal of Kong, the portrayal of the Natives, and the portrayal of Denham, and many more. This is really a brilliant chapter, and it is an excellent example of complex critical analysis.

By: Framing Monsters: Joshua David Bellin explores social alienation in fantasy films

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:08:28 +0000

[...] Read the complete article here. [...]