00000caa a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862409218 Buklod 20210510204110.0 m | | ta 210510s2009 xx r |||| u|eng d (iLib)UPBAG-00040178225 DML BAG rda eng ARTICLE-3484 Campos, Patrick F. author. The fantasy-adventure films as contemporary epics, 2000-2007 Patrick F. Campos. 2009. pages 1-36 illustrations 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 33-36) This paper aims to compare the narrative form and themes of folk epic (as typified by Labaw Donggon) and the contemporary fantasy-adventure film (as typified by the four Enteng Kabisote films). Labaw Donggon, an epic from the Sulod society of Central Panay, possesses all the universally decipherable elements of the epic narrative. On the other hand, the Enteng Kabisote films' narrative forms, themes, social contexts, and function may be generalized as applicable to most, if not all, of the other fantasy-adventure films at the turn of the century. The four films are found to be episodic like ethnoepics as they have loosely connected episodes, adventurous detours, and skirmishes forestalling a final battle. The contemporary fantasy-adventure film is also found to be cyclical with its repetitions and recreations, novel retellings, sequels and prequels, and the addition of new episodes and characters. As typified by the Enteng Kabisote films, the contemporary fantasy-adventure film perpetuates a narrow, even muddled, sense of nation. It has shrunk its vision into the comfort zone of the family, insecure about and unsure of the individual's and the nation's abilities to aspire for heroism and expansion. Instead of expanding the oft-repeated centrality of the family in the ethnoepic, the fantasy-adventure film has remained fixated on this theme and has neither widened, deepened, nor problematized it. Labaw Donggon (Epic). Motion pictures Critics and criticism. Fantasy films. Plaridel : A Journal of Philippine Communication, Media, and Society Vol. 6, Number 1 (February 2009), p. 1-36. Request full-text access via UPB University Library through https://forms.gle/KZjBv7aRtY6jiL5E9 (viewed 10 May 2021) FI UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN ARTICLE-3484 Analytics