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Stock, Kathleen. Fantasy, imagination, and film
2009, British Journal of Aesthetics 49 (4):357-369.
Topics: Aesthetic Experience and Judgement; Aesthetic Normativity and Value; Individual Arts and Crafts; Mental States and Processes; Metaphysics of Aesthetics
Keywords: aesthetics; film; imagination
Traditions: Analytic; European
Languages: English

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Added by: Chris Blake-Turner, Contributed by: Christy Mag Uidhir

Abstract: In his article 'Fantasy, Imagination and the Screen' , Roger Scruton offers an account of fantasy, arguing that it is directed away from reality in some important sense, and that cinema is its natural representational medium. I address certain problems with Scruton's basic account, thereby producing a signifi cantly amended version, though one that owes a great debt to his. I explain why, as he says, much fantasy is signifi cantly directed away from reality; and conclude with some brief remarks about.

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