How does the fantasy genre relate to modern media such as video games?
Like other multimodal narratives, Harry Potter stands out as a adventure and fantasy classic in many ways. Like other multimodal genres, Harry Potter can be told in many different ways and the video game market has proven extremely successful for this franchise. "Josie finds the game authentic because it allows her to be Harry Potter" (Burn, A). One of Fantasy's themes is a main character who over comes a personal hardship and also does things out of the ordinary. In these video games a normal person (just like that of a protagonist in a Fantasy story) can do the extraordinary just like the character they identify with in their favourite Fantasy narrative.
REFERENCES
Burn, A (2005) 'Potter-Literacy - from book to game and back again; Literature, film, game and cross-media literacy', in Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature Vol 14, No 3
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