Tzvetan Todorov was a massive contribution to literacy theory by defining ‘Fantastic’ the fantastic uncanny, and the fantastic marvelous. Todorov defines the fantastic as being an event that happens in our world that appears to be supernatural. So basically when you watch a film, you must decide whether it was real or an illusion. Upon choosing whether the event is real or imaginary, Todorov says that we enter into the ‘genres of uncanny and marvelous’.
Fantastic Uncanny is when the event is an illusion in the real world to make the event seem supernatural. Fantastic Uncanny can be seen as an illusion through drugs, dreams, alcohol etc. during the event.
Fantastic Marvelous is the other way round, where the illusion is actually real and all of it actually happened by breaking the ‘laws of reality’.
Todorov was also the person who came up with a structure that used in almost all films of today. This consists of.
- · Equilibrium
- · Disequilibrium
- · Realisation
- · Attempt to resolve
- · Resolution
- · Re-Equilibrium
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