{"product_id":"picturing-tolkien-9780786446360","title":"Picturing Tolkien","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   This group of new critical essays offers multidisciplinary analysis of director Peter Jackson''s spectacularly successful adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien''s \u003ci\u003eLord of the Rings\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy: \u003ci\u003eThe Fellowship of the Ring\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), \u003ci\u003eThe Two Towers\u003c\/i\u003e (2002) and \u003ci\u003eThe Return of the King\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   Instructors considering this book for use in a course may \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mcfarlandbooks.com\/customers\/students-instructors\/\"\u003e request an examination copy here\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExtraordinary...fascinating.\" —\u003ci\u003eMidwest Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Will be of interest to scholars and fans...a worthwhile study.\" —\u003ci\u003eMythlore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A valuable addition to the critical examination of the relationship between Tolkien's novel and Jackson's films...the editors are to be commended for providing a venue for nuanced, interdisciplinary approaches to Jackson's adaptations.\" —\u003ci\u003eJournal of the Fantastic in the Arts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI. Techniques of Story and Structure\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGollum Talks to Himself: Problems and Solutions in Peter Jackson's Film Adaptation of \u003ci\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSometimes One Word Is Worth a Thousand Pictures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo Kinds of Absence: Elision and Exclusion in Peter Jackson's \u003ci\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTolkien's Resistance to Linearity: Narrating \u003ci\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/i\u003e in Fiction and Film\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFilming Folklore: Adapting Fantasy for the Big Screen through Peter Jackson's \u003ci\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaking the Connection on Page and Screen in Tolkien's and Jackson's \u003ci\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“It's Alive!\": Tolkien's Monster on the Screen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Matériel of Middle- earth: Arms and Armor in Peter Jackson's \u003ci\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/i\u003e Motion Picture Trilogy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eII. Techniques of Character and Culture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInto the West: Far Green Country or Shadow on the Waters?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrodo Lives but Gollum Redeems the Blood of Kings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Grey Pilgrim: Gandalf and the Challenges of Characterization in Middle- earth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJackson's Aragorn and the American Superhero Monomyth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNeither the Shadow nor the Twilight: The Love Story of Aragorn and Arwen in Literature and Film\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConcerning Horses: Establishing Cultural Settings from Tolkien to Jackson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Rohirrim, the Anglo- Saxons, and the Problem of Appendix F : Ambiguity, Analogy and Reference in Tolkien's Books and Jackson's Films\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFilming the Numinous: The Fate of Lothlórien in Peter Jackson's \u003ci\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038030332247,"sku":"9780786446360","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780786446360.jpg?v=1750938722","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/picturing-tolkien-9780786446360","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}