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<blockquote data-quote="Ralif Redhammer" data-source="post: 8073989" data-attributes="member: 30438"><p>For my part, I think if I had to define American Fantasy, it all goes back to the frontier and the wild west. It's about individuality and freedom and a strange land where people of all different cultures come together. Whether that's John Carter and Barsoom, Conan and Hyboria, Dorothy and Oz, that is American Fantasy.</p><p></p><p>I would point out the TV series, Once Upon A Time, as a recent example of American Fantasy. It's a melting pot of tropes, genres, and characters. Heck, it even featured the Wicked Witch and Oz. </p><p></p><p>Frank Baum's influence is still around, perhaps more by osmosis than direct influence, but it's still here. Just looking at it as a portal fantasy, it's this long lineage that goes way back, arguably to the stories of people being abducted into the lands of the Fae, to Alice in Wonderland, to Oz, to A Princess of Mars, to Harold Shea, to Narnia, to The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, to Every Heart a Doorway.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In a discussion of American Fantasy, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the Americana RPG. Tolkien meets Stand By Me, it addresses those same anxieties about youth and authority that have been around for ages, whether we're talking Rebel Without a Cause, just about any John Hughes movie, Huckleberry Finn, and countless others.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ralif Redhammer, post: 8073989, member: 30438"] For my part, I think if I had to define American Fantasy, it all goes back to the frontier and the wild west. It's about individuality and freedom and a strange land where people of all different cultures come together. Whether that's John Carter and Barsoom, Conan and Hyboria, Dorothy and Oz, that is American Fantasy. I would point out the TV series, Once Upon A Time, as a recent example of American Fantasy. It's a melting pot of tropes, genres, and characters. Heck, it even featured the Wicked Witch and Oz. Frank Baum's influence is still around, perhaps more by osmosis than direct influence, but it's still here. Just looking at it as a portal fantasy, it's this long lineage that goes way back, arguably to the stories of people being abducted into the lands of the Fae, to Alice in Wonderland, to Oz, to A Princess of Mars, to Harold Shea, to Narnia, to The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, to Every Heart a Doorway. In a discussion of American Fantasy, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the Americana RPG. Tolkien meets Stand By Me, it addresses those same anxieties about youth and authority that have been around for ages, whether we're talking Rebel Without a Cause, just about any John Hughes movie, Huckleberry Finn, and countless others. [/QUOTE]
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