Jonathan, if you are referring to the film "Fever" directed by Agnieszka Holland in 1981, it is indeed available on video through Facets Multimedia, Chicago IL (800) 331-6197. Hope this helps. Becky Albitz University of Iowa Libraries > 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]