Hey guys well another week as come !!!
First question i am answering this week is:
How does the Fantasy genre relate to modern media such as video games?
"The books have grown into a cross - media craze, in which childrens engagement extends across novels, films, games, the internet and a range of merchandise" (pg 36)
So the Fantasy genre relates to the modern media such as video games like for an exampe Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings etc, what the fantasy genre and video games have that they can relate to each other is they way they have maps, imaginary world and so on.
"The Lord of the Rings gave rise to one of the most popular of modern game - genres, some stories are ideally adapted to serve as the basis of games", which is like
Harry Potter it is not exactly like the book... " The game represents a marked shift. Harry's actions are quite different from the book or film" (pg 38)
So in conclusion fantasy genre builds the base of videos games, like i said above by maps etc.. so when a game is made they have that base from the fantasy media to build from... Personally I too think that the fantasy genre and video games relate together in the sense of being hand in hand as like a fantasy media when someone plays a game they can too go off into a imaginary world..
My next question for this week is as follows;..........
Is Tolkien's notion of the "faery story" linked to fantasy genre? How closely?
" A fairy story, a thing built on or about fantasy of which fantasy is the core" (pg 54)
Tolkien notion of the faery story linked to the fantasy genre is linked quite closely to fantasy as Tolkien suggests a fairy story uses a similar angle to Faerie, " in such fantasy as it is called, new form is made; Faerie Begins" and " An essential power of Farie is thus the power of making immediately effective by the will the visions of fantasy" (Pg 25)
References
Tolkien, J.R.R. (1988; 1964). On Faerie Stories. In Tree and Leaf. London: Unwin Hyman.
Burn, A. (2005). Potter-Literacy – from book to game and back again; literature, film, game and cross-media literacy. Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature Vol 14, No 3.
Hi Kelsey - a good start (your first response)- though your tend to raise more questions than you answer - esp: In what ways are the actions of Harry different between the games and the book? If you bring up such a comment in your discussion - it's be really interesting for the reader if you try and address it as well . . .
ReplyDeleteObviously, the 2nd response needs further development. Don't forget to include the surnames of those you're referencing - I'm not exactly sure who you are referring to in the responses above . . .
Hi Darryl yup will fixed that... yes i know second post is short was in a hurry but will add more to it... thanks :)
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