Research

I've Started my research. I have decided to research fantasy film, focussing on the scope of the human mind and imagination. I have started by reading:

Walters, J (2011)    Fantasy film a critical introduction.      Oxford: Bloomsbury publishing  

this is what i understood from the introduction, (mostly paraphrased) 

Fantasy itself is such a broad term that it can be applied to the majority of Hollywood cinema today. So much so that there are not really any known or understood parameters or generic elements of the fantasy genre.
The problem being that trying to provide a definitive answer to “what is fantasy?” the answer can become so broad as to include almost every fiction film that we conceive or so narrow that it excludes films that genuinely belong in that category. One way of coping with an ever illusive answer is to do away with the term fantasy all together and to embrace its tendency to appear in works of horror, sci-fi, comedy and most other genres of Hollywood cinema.

Although we might be tempted to say that any fictional film can be read as a fantasy. It has also become a common practise to recognise certain moments within film consciously as fantasy, simply by recognising them as “out of the ordinary” from the natural to the supernatural. When watching a fictional film we are presented with circumstances that could occur within our own realities. When faced with a fantasy film however we are conscious that we are being shown a series of events that, according to the rules of reasonable logic, could never happen within our realities.

From here i think i'll look into things that are recognised or expected to appear in fantasy