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Harry Potter is a portal fantasy, not magical realism. The strange things/magic is explained, literally, as in, it’s taught in a classroom setting. This is a portal fantasy. You never see non-wizards (at that! wizards are realistic?) interact with wizards. In fact they take great pains to HIDE FROM the reality the wider world has bought into since time immemorial. Edit: plus (and I might be wrong about this but I believe you even say this) wands that emit lightning? Not realistic at all.

People say magical realism is when the magic “is just accepted,” but that’s not really accurate. For example: people accept that Superman exists and flies and has magical powers but Superman is not “magical realism.” Magical realism is where the magic itself is “realistic” vs “fantastical.” So… if a witch in urban fantasy casts a growth spell on a tree- it will grow in front of your eyes. If a witch casts a spell in a magical realism story for growth on a tree, someone will check it every day and be amazed by its growth. Also a witch in a magical realism story will probably look like a normal person but maybe have a distinctive style (like Stevie Nicks as an example) but not necessarily. However, she’ll be dressed “realistically” for the most part.

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This person cannot possibly be a teacher at any level. This tragically stupid video is FILLED with misspellings and factual errors. (Catch-22, for example, is NOT a “satire of the political scene of the ‘20s”, but rather an anti-war satire set during World War II!)

The concept, the idea, is an ancient one. Only the name is recent.

I think an early version of magical realism would be the old original Captain Marvel Fawcett comic character, who lived and worked in real cities but had super-powers: All a small young boy had to do was say "shazam" and he became a powerful full-blown adult super-hero able to fly, move mountains etc, who interacted both with realistic human characters as well as talking tigers, and such. An ancient wizard had given him these powers, but no one really knew anything about that. I remember when I first encountered this character, who, for years greatly eclipsed Batman , Superman and pretty much every other super character in popularity back in the 40's/early 50's, I was intrigued by this peculiar mixture of the mundane/everyday and the extraordinary in such a nonchalant way: No one seemed to be surprised by the strangest goings-on: Some of the stories were set in real places, like Cleveland, Detroit, New York etc, and would feature stories that involved the actual majors, governors etc of these cities. Note: Capt. Marvel's powers come from mythical/historical/ancient beings: Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles and Mercury, the first initials of which, together, spell "shazam". (Btw, not to confuse this Capt. Marvel with the modern re-imagining of this character developed by Marvel comics.)

Adding to my previous comment: Would a book like W.H. Hodgson's THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND (1908) be considered magical realism? The real and the uncanny seem to exist side-by-side in a not-very-questioned world

Thanks for the video and the overview of this peculiar type of artistic expression. I've long felt that the term "magical realism" is a bit confusing, since "magical" can be taken as being about simply "wonderful moments and/or encounters/relationships", as well as literal magic in the sense of conjurings, supernatural powers, stage trickery and such. I've wondered if the word "marvelous" might be a closer fit? In a lot of ways, seems to me, super-heroes and super-hero adventures in comics, graphic novels, movies etc. are mostly all forms of magical realism (using the currently accepted term), in that the stories generally take place in otherwise realistic/standard reality in which people with extraordinary powers and histories interact with everyday life...and no one's eyes, proverbially, pop-out when observing these often god-like beings and the feats they perform. (Same, to some extent, re: the Japanese kieju--sp?---movies, where huge bizarre monsters constantly show up and they are immediately recognized and have, apparently, been long accepted as part of the modern world, to the extent everyone seems to know the names and powers of these impossible creatures.)Thoughts?

Genre definitions are for reviewers and publishers to worry about. As you say they had to create a new definition for Harry Potter. Neither JKR or her readers care about that.

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Very interesting theories about this subject. I never could get to the bottom of the Urban Fantasy genre so thanks for clarifying it. I wonder whether the debate about what constitutes this or that genre in this regard is more about what is considered real literature and what is not. Maybe Harry Potter wasn't considered serious literature at the time and so they came up with Urban Fantasy to distinguish it from the likes of Marquez, Angela Carter or Rushdie.

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Rowling was so NOT the first. The movie Bedknobs and Broomsticks was based on The Magic Bedknob; or, How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons (1943) and Bonfires and Broomsticks (1947) by English children's author Mary Norton. Urban fantasy has been around a long time.

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Urban fantasy goes back to the 80s at least.

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This is a convoluted explanation. The big difference is in intent and how the authors handle the magical system. Like boring literary fiction, Magical realism focuses on character and society, using fantastic elements to illustrate something about a character or society. For instance, consider what Franz Kafka's *The Metamorphasis* reveals about middle-class society, which is all about conformity. That book's MC transforms into a giant beetle. Middle-class society has the man's family mistreat him: they hide him away, ashamed, and after he dies, carry on immediately as if nothing happens. How and why the main character transforms into a beetle is irrelevant. Kafka does not care. There is magic, but characters don't exploit the system to their advantage. Instead, the magic just happens, revealing something about individuality, society, and conformity. Contrast that with Jim Butcher's urban fantasy classic series *The Dresden Files,* where the mage Harry Dresden runs around Chicago fighting villains that would fit into Tolkein's middle earth. These are pure fun: great page-turning pulp fiction. In the books, the magician Harry has a cell phone... and a talking skull with immense knowledge of the magical realms. He drives a VW... into fairyland to fight evil sprites. And the spells he casts have a system behind them which he consciously exploits to win in battle. The books are fun. There's a lot of action. Good plotting. And Harry's funny, snarky and sarcastic, a pretty well-developed character. And yet, unlike *The Mteamorphasis,* Butcher's books make me think of nothing outside the book. Instead, I turn a page to learn"What's next?." But instead of thinking about society and individuality, I'm contained within the pages of the book. Other contrasts: Alice Siebold's magical realist *The Lovely Bones,* versus Patricia Briggs's urban fantasy series *Mercy Thompson* books. Both are great reads, but *The Lovely Bones* is just so much better. In fact, it's heartbreaking, telling so much about sexual abuse, and it;s aftermath, killing the victim's soul. indeed, it also kills the perps soul as well. With Briggs, it's all werewolves, vampires, mythical creatures and adventure.

As a Literature Major VERY interested in Fantasy, I'm sick and tired of people telling me that I'll love magical realism. Magical realism doesn't make any sense to me. It's so wildly different than any other kind of fantasy, and it legitimately irritates me so much when people assume that just because I enjoy fantasy, it therefore means I'll enjoy what I consider a VERY niche kind of genre

Anne Rice authored well over 30 novels, with her 1976 debut novel, Interview with the Vampire, acclaimed as one of the best-selling novels of all time. Ergo, she started the new genre of urban fantasy. Harry Potter series is classed as low fantasy.

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I think a big difference is whether or not the magic has any origin or reason. There is a lot of explaining in urban fantasy, but magical realism is like, “it’s a thing, don’t waste your time with theories.” Bc a big part of magical realism is the theme that “sometimes good and bad stuff happens and you don’t get an explanation, you just have to deal with it,” which comes from its roots in Latin America.

Urban Fantasy is a fantasy world set in a world that has similarities to modern world but has elves, drawves, dragons and magic sorcerors and demons and vampires and mythoglogical gods, for example final fantasy 7, 13, 15 and devil may cry,shadow run, mortal kombat, Hell boy. The thing most people confuse with urban fantasy is paranormal real world fiction which is a a real world with supernatural themes like supernatural show, buffy, vampire diaries. Harry potter never invented urban fantasy theres entire urban fantasy books, games, movies and anime and shows that predate the harry potter series by decades.

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Urban fantasy existed way before Harry Potter. Check out the work of Charles de Lint and Emma Bull from the 80's. Especially the Borderlands stories and books. And you can easily argue that things like Dracula are urban fantasy, but the genre did get it's name in the 1980's.

Catch 22 was set in wwII in the forties.

A good example of Magical Realism is Penelope (2007). There's one magical element, but other than the quirky nature of the film the world is normal.

Related to the mythos difference argument, I’m wondering if another difference is that magic realism doesn’t have an actual system to its magic. There’s no way to predict or explain why something happens unlike Harry Potter which has a set of rules for its magic.

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Ummm.... pretty sure Rowling didn't invent UF & she certainly wasn't the first to write it. And I've never seen the H.P. books listed anywhere as UF. Urban Fantasy is mostly set in urban citys and involves witches, vamps, shifters, fae etc... H.P. is just Contemporary fantasy.

This explains so much! Thanks. I've been trying to understand what urban fantasy is.

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The content of your viedeo was very good but I would recommend next time to put less Fx in it, sometimes it was difficult to focus. (:

I think the videos would be better without music, it makes it hard to focus on what you're saying. Hope this helps!

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the killing joke novel came out way before this movie and explained his origin tho it wasn't canon

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