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<blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 8075745" data-attributes="member: 6803643"><p>Fantasy</p><p></p><p>Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror, and Weird/Strange/Paranormal Fiction have heavy overlaps. </p><p></p><p>As they do with other "Pulp" fiction or "Genre" fiction, but even more so together.</p><p></p><p>Heck, this is literally how Marvel Comics became the juggernaut it is today: by taking the tropes of the genre stories in pulp fiction magazines and penny dreadful novels and porting them into their "Tales of Suspense" (Iron Man, Captain America), "Tales to Astonish" (Ant-Man, later also the Hulk) "Strange Tales" (Doctor Strange, Nick Fury), and "Amazing Fantasy" (Spider-Man). </p><p></p><p></p><p>You can't tease apart the genres completely. These were the stories the geeks and nerds of the day 180s-1950s were interested in (many of whom have already been mentioned here, like Conan, John Carter, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers), and after the fall of the Pulp Magazines, comic books, fantasy & sci-fi novels, and the eventually the rise of massively popular genre films like Star Wars would carry on the mantle. Remember that Lucas himself wanted to make a film to pay homage not only to John Wayne and Akira Kurosawa, but also to the 1930s serialized films of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. </p><p></p><p>And today, the serialized film has cemented itself back into the American moviegoing mindset, with massive movie franchises churning out multiple intereconnected films a year, and streaming services delivering hour long episodes in batches (or in the case of Netflix, in binge-bundles) with no commercial interruptions. The pulp serial film has now come into your own home.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marandahir, post: 8075745, member: 6803643"] Fantasy Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror, and Weird/Strange/Paranormal Fiction have heavy overlaps. As they do with other "Pulp" fiction or "Genre" fiction, but even more so together. Heck, this is literally how Marvel Comics became the juggernaut it is today: by taking the tropes of the genre stories in pulp fiction magazines and penny dreadful novels and porting them into their "Tales of Suspense" (Iron Man, Captain America), "Tales to Astonish" (Ant-Man, later also the Hulk) "Strange Tales" (Doctor Strange, Nick Fury), and "Amazing Fantasy" (Spider-Man). You can't tease apart the genres completely. These were the stories the geeks and nerds of the day 180s-1950s were interested in (many of whom have already been mentioned here, like Conan, John Carter, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers), and after the fall of the Pulp Magazines, comic books, fantasy & sci-fi novels, and the eventually the rise of massively popular genre films like Star Wars would carry on the mantle. Remember that Lucas himself wanted to make a film to pay homage not only to John Wayne and Akira Kurosawa, but also to the 1930s serialized films of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. And today, the serialized film has cemented itself back into the American moviegoing mindset, with massive movie franchises churning out multiple intereconnected films a year, and streaming services delivering hour long episodes in batches (or in the case of Netflix, in binge-bundles) with no commercial interruptions. The pulp serial film has now come into your own home. [/QUOTE]
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