From Hobbits to Hollywood : : Essays on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings /

From Hobbits to Hollywood : : Essays on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings / / edited by Ernest Mathijs, Murray Pomerance.

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Peter Jackson's film version of The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003) is the grandest achievement of 21st century cinema so far. But it is also linked to topical and social concerns including war, terrorism, and cultural imperialism. Its style, symbols, narrative, and structure seem always already...

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Superior document:Contemporary Cinema ; 3
TeilnehmendeR:
Mathijs, Ernest,
Pomerance, Murray,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2006.
Year of Publication:2006
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Contemporary Cinema ; 3.
Physical Description:1 online resource (426 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Dramatis Personae
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributor
  • Ernest MATHIJS and Murray POMERANCE: Introduction: There and Back Again: An Editors ' Tale
  • Douglas KELLNER: The Lord of the Rings as Allegory: A Multiperspectivist Reading
  • Ernest MATHIJS: The Lord of the Rings and Family: A View on Text and Reception
  • Sean CUBITT: The Fading of the Elves: Eco-Catastrophe, Technopoly, and Bio-Security
  • Martin BARKER: On Being a 1960s Tolkien Reader
  • Ken GELDER: Epic Fantasy and Global Terrorism
  • Ian CONRICH: A Land of Make Believe: Merchandising and Consumption of The Lord of the Rings
  • Jennifer BRAYTON: Fic Frodo Slash Frodo: Fandoms and The Lord of the Rings
  • Sarah KOZLOFF: The Lord of the Rings as Melodrama
  • Lianne MCLARTY: Masculinity,Whiteness, and Social Class in The Lord of the Rings
  • Steven WOODWARD and Kostis KOURELIS: Urban Legend: Architecture in The Lord of the Rings
  • Tom CONLEY: The Lord of the Rings and The Fellowship of the Map
  • James BUHLER: Enchantments of The Lord of the Rings : Soundtrack, Myth, Language, and Modernity
  • Cynthia FUCHS: "Wicked,tricksy, false": Race,Myth, and Gollum
  • Ruth GOLDBERG and Krin GABBARD: "What does the Eye Demand ": Sexuality, Forbidden Vision and Embodiment in The Lord of the Rings
  • Kirsten Moana THOMPSON: Scale, Spectacle and Movement: Massive Software and Digital Special Effects in The Lord of The Rings
  • Jerry MOSHER: Morphing Sean Astin: "Playing Fat " in the Age of Digital Animation
  • Tom GUNNING: Gollum and Golem: Special Effects and the Technology of Artificial Bodies
  • Murray POMERANCE: The Laddy Vanishes
  • Works Cited and Consulted
  • Index.

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