From hobbits to Hollywood
essays on Peter Jackson's Lord of the rings
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Author
Contributions
- Mathijs, Ernest. - Contributor
- Pomerance, Murray, 1946- - Contributor
Publication
2006 - Rodopi, Amsterdam
Language
English
Word Count
100,750 words, Guess
Page Count
403 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL22740781M
- ISBN-109042016825
- OCLC Control Number70249525
- LibraryThing8718983
- Goodreads1358007
Classifications
- LCCPN1995.9.L58 F76 2006
Description
"Peter Jackson $1 (Bs 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 linked to politics, cultural definition, problems of cinematic style, and the elemenal mythologies that most profoundly capture our imaginations. From Hobbits to Hollywood: Essays on Peter Jackson $1 (Bs Lord of the Rings treats Jackson $1 (Bs trilogy as having two conditions of existence: an aesthetic and a political. Like other cultural artefacts, it leads a double life as objet d $1 (Bart and public statement about the world, so that nothing in it is ever just cinematically beautiful or tasteful, and nothing is ever just a message or an opinion"--Cover 4.
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Series Statement
- Contemporary cinema -- 3
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