I am starting a project (and will propose to teach a class) on magical realism in film and literature. The only source I know directly dealing with magical realism in film is Fredric Jameson's article in _Critical Inquiry_ a few years ago. One of the problems with this article is that he analyzes two films that I suspect are nearly impossible to get hold of--indeed for one, the Polish film _Fever_ he explicitly states that there is only one print in the US. Thanks, Fred. So I would be interested in any suggestions as to examples of or definitions of magical realism in film. Some examples that I have come up with include _Like Water For Chocolate_, _Wings of Desire_, _Miracle in Milan_, _Santa Sangre_ and _The Tin Drum_. If it helps, I don't have a much better idea of how to define magical realism in literature, except to reel off a list of the usual suspects: Rushdie, Garcia Marquez, Grass, Kundera, Carpentier, Allende.... My suspicion is that as a _formal_ concept magical realism doesn't have much weight and is separable only with difficulty from the fable, the fantastic or whatever. As a historical concept, magical realism is usually associated with post-colonialism (with German and Czech twists) and with different ways of writing history (often woman or "home" centered as in both Allende's _House of the Spirits_ and _Like Water For Chocololate_) I have a feeling that cooking is important--cf. Rushdie's _Midnight's Children_; thus maybe _Tampopo_?--and a certain political content generated by the sense of a failing _poltical_ realism (thus _Brazil_?). But in the end I still have little idea. Jon [log in to unmask]