High fantasy meets low culture in How To Train Your Dragon (2010)

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Summers, S. 2018. High fantasy meets low culture in How To Train Your Dragon (2010). in: Holliday, C. and Sergeant, A. (ed.) Fantasy/Animation: Connections Between Media, Mediums and Genres New York, NY Taylor & Francis (Routledge). pp. 227-242
Chapter titleHigh fantasy meets low culture in How To Train Your Dragon (2010)
AuthorsSummers, S.
Abstract

This chapter investigates the 2010 DreamWorks Animation film How To Train Your Dragon. It looks at the tension between the film's high-fantasy elements, drawn from such literary classics at The Lord of the Rings, and its references to contemporary American popular culture, most prominently teen and high school comedies. The former elements are used to characterise the film's adult characters, while the latter characterise its young protagonists, with the culture clash inherent in the combination of intertextual influences being used to emphasise the inter-generational tension which drives the film's plot

Sustainable Development Goals4 Quality education
Middlesex University ThemeCreativity, Culture & Enterprise
Page range227-242
Book titleFantasy/Animation: Connections Between Media, Mediums and Genres
EditorsHolliday, C. and Sergeant, A.
PublisherTaylor & Francis (Routledge)
Place of publicationNew York, NY
ISBN
Hardcover9781138054370
Electronic9781315166919
Paperback9780367590741
Publication dates
Print24 Apr 2018
Online27 Apr 2018
Publication process dates
Accepted2018
Deposited29 Apr 2024
Output statusPublished
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315166919-14
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LanguageEnglish
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