From Hobbits to Hollywood:
Essays on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings
edited by
Ernest Mathijs and Murray Pomerance
Amsterdam and New York: Editions Rodopi, 2006
Contents
List of Illustrations
Dramatis Personae
Acknowledgments
Contributors
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