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

Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Performing Arts, Film, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
Cover of the book Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy by Edited by Janice M. Bogstad and Philip E. Kaveny, McFarland
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Author: Edited by Janice M. Bogstad and Philip E. Kaveny ISBN: 9780786484737
Publisher: McFarland Publication: August 9, 2011
Imprint: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Language: English
Author: Edited by Janice M. Bogstad and Philip E. Kaveny
ISBN: 9780786484737
Publisher: McFarland
Publication: August 9, 2011
Imprint: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Language: English

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.

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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.

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