From hobbits to Hollywood
Subtitle: essays on Peter Jackson's Lord of the rings
By: edited by Ernest Mathijs and Murray Pomerance.
Contributors: Mathijs, Ernest.; Pomerance, Murray, 1946-
Series: Contemporary cinema -- 3
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
Subjects: Jackson, Peter, -- 1961-; Tolkien, J. R. R. -- 1892-1973.; Lord of the Rings films.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-392) and index.