Overview

"This group of new critical essays offers multidisciplinary analysis of director Peter Jackson's spectacularly successful adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002) and The Return of the King (2003). Part One of the collection, ""Techniques of Structure and Story,"" compares and contrasts the organizational principles of the books and films. Part Two, ""Techniques of Character and Culture,"" focuses on the methods used to transform the characters and settings of Tolkien's narrative into the personalities and places visualized on screen. Each of the sixteen essays includes extensive notes and a separate bibliography. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here."

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Author:   Janice M. Bogstad ,  Philip E. Kaveny
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.413kg
ISBN:  

9780786446360

ISBN 10:   0786446366
Pages:   309
Publication Date:   23 August 2011
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments      Preface by Janice M. Bogstad and Philip E. Kaveny      Introduction      I. Techniques of Story and Structure Gollum Talks to Himself: Problems and Solutions in Peter Jackson’s Film Adaptation of The Lord of the Rings KRISTIN THOMPSON      Sometimes One Word Is Worth a Thousand Pictures VERLYN FLIEGER      Two Kinds of Absence: Elision and Exclusion in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings JOHN D. RATELIFF      Tolkien’s Resistance to Linearity: Narrating The Lord of the Rings in Fiction and Film E.L. RISDEN      Filming Folklore: Adapting Fantasy for the Big Screen through Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings DIMITRA FIMI      Making the Connection on Page and Screen in Tolkien’s and Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings YVETTE KISOR      “It’s Alive!”: Tolkien’s Monster on the Screen SHARIN SCHROEDER      The Matériel of Middle- earth: Arms and Armor in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy ROBERT C. WOOSNAM- SAVAGE      II. Techniques of Character and Culture Into the West: Far Green Country or Shadow on the Waters? JUDY ANN FORD and ROBIN ANNE REID      Frodo Lives but Gollum Redeems the Blood of Kings PHILIP E. KAVENY      The Grey Pilgrim: Gandalf and the Challenges of Characterization in Middle- earth BRIAN D. WALTER      Jackson’s Aragorn and the American Superhero Monomyth JANET BRENNAN CROFT      Neither the Shadow nor the Twilight: The Love Story of Aragorn and Arwen in Literature and Film RICHARD C. WEST      Concerning Horses: Establishing Cultural Settings from Tolkien to Jackson JANICE M. BOGSTAD      The Rohirrim, the Anglo- Saxons, and the Problem of Appendix F : Ambiguity, Analogy and Reference in Tolkien’s Books and Jackson’s Films MICHAEL D.C. DROUT      Filming the Numinous: The Fate of Lothlórien in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings JOSEPH RICKE and CATHERINE BARNETT      About the Contributors      Index     

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extraordinary...fascinating <i>Midwest Book Review</i>; will be of interest to scholars and fans...a worthwhile study <i>Mythlore</i>; a valuable addition to the critical examination of the relationship between Tolkien s novel and Jackson s films...the editors are to be commended for providing a venue for nuanced, interdisciplinary approaches to Jackson s adaptations <i>Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts</i>.

extraordinary...fascinating --Midwest Book Review will be of interest to scholars and fans...a worthwhile study --Mythlore a valuable addition to the critical examination of the relationship between Tolkien's novel and Jackson's films...the editors are to be commended for providing a venue for nuanced, interdisciplinary approaches to Jackson's adaptations --Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. extraordinary...fascinating --Midwest Book Review; will be of interest to scholars and fans...a worthwhile study --Mythlore; a valuable addition to the critical examination of the relationship between Tolkien's novel and Jackson's films...the editors are to be commended for providing a venue for nuanced, interdisciplinary approaches to Jackson's adaptations --Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. extraordinary...fascinating Midwest Book Review; will be of interest to scholars and fans...a worthwhile study Mythlore; a valuable addition to the critical examination of the relationship between Tolkien s novel and Jackson s films...the editors are to be commended for providing a venue for nuanced, interdisciplinary approaches to Jackson s adaptations Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.

Author Information

Janice M. Bogstad is a professor of women’s studies and English and head of technical services at the McIntyre Library, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. Her written work has appeared in more than 60 reference books. University of Wisconsin–Madison Emeritus Philip E. Kaveny is an independent scholar, author, playwright, poet and lecturer.

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