Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy

Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy
ISBN-10
078648473X
ISBN-13
9780786484737
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
309
Language
English
Published
2011-09-07
Publisher
McFarland
Authors
Janice M. Bogstad, Philip E. Kaveny

Description

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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