A Critical Dragon | How 'Series' Alter Narrative Structure: Intrusion Fantasy and Alternate History @ACriticalDragon | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
I have been watching For All Mankind, an alternate history science fiction TV Show about the Space Race initially set in the 1960s, but as the seasons have progressed, it has moved further and further away from an alternate history with close parallels to our reality, into something more akin to a straightforward science fiction show.
This got me thinking about the impact of 'Series as an influence of how we perceive the narrative in front of us.
I have previously discussed Farah Mendlesohn's concept of the Intrusion Fantasy from her work Rhetorics of Fantasy, and how Urban Fantasy series often start that way, but soon move past it to something more akin to Secondary World fantasy. By analogy, I think that something similar happens with Alternate History stories.
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I have been watching For All Mankind, an alternate history science fiction TV Show about the Space Race initially set in the 1960s, but as the seasons have progressed, it has moved further and further away from an alternate history with close parallels to our reality, into something more akin to a straightforward science fiction show.
This got me thinking about the impact of 'Series as an influence of how we perceive the narrative in front of us.
I have previously discussed Farah Mendlesohn's concept of the Intrusion Fantasy from her work Rhetorics of Fantasy, and how Urban Fantasy series often start that way, but soon move past it to something more akin to Secondary World fantasy. By analogy, I think that something similar happens with Alternate History stories.
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Intro and Music by Professor Trip.
