Few, if any, books come close to being as beloved – or as ubiquitous – as The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The book delves into the philosophy of the series and its fans, the distinctions between the films’ fans and the books’ fans, the process of adaptation, and the role of New Zealand in the translation of words to images. Lavishly illustrated, it is guaranteed to appeal to anyone who has ever closed the last page of The Return of the King and wished it to never end.
Tabella dei contenuti
Introduction Lorna Piatti-Farnell
Making Fantasy Matter: The Lord of the Rings and the Legitimization of Fantasy Cinema Alexander Sergeant
The Lord of the Rings: One Digital Fandom to Initiate Them All Maggie Parke
Reforging the Rings: Fan Edits and the Cinematic Middle-earth Joshua Wille
Walking Between Two Lands, or How Double Canon Works in The Lord of the Rings Fan Films Miguel Àngel Pérez-Gómez
On Party Business: True-fan Celebrations in New Zealand’s Middle-earth Lorna Piatti-Farnell
There, Here and Back Again: The Search for Middle-earth in Birmingham Emily M. Gray
Looking for Lothiriel: The Presence of Women in Tolkien Fandom Cait Coker and Karen Viars
Lord of the Franchise: The Lord of the Rings, IP Rights and Policing Appropriation Paul Mountfort
Writing the Star: The Lord of the Rings and the Production of Star Narratives Anna Martin
Understanding Fans’ ‘Precious’: The Impact of the Lord of the Rings Films on the Hobbit Movies Abigail G. Scheg
Circa l’autore
Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Ph.D., is professor of media and cultural studies at Auckland University of Technology, where she is also director of the Popular Culture Research Centre. In addition, she is an adjunct professor at Curtin University (Australia), president of the Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia (GANZA) and the coordinator of the Australasian Horror Studies Network. Her research interests lie at the intersection of film, popular media, and cultural history, and include a focus on corporeality, horror, bio-ethics, disability, eco-environmental studies, technology, superheroes and the Gothic. She has published widely in these areas, including volumes such as Consuming Gothic: Food and Horror in Film (Palgrave, 2017), Gothic Afterlives: Reincarnations of Horror in Film and Popular Media (Lexington, 2019) and The Superhero Multiverse: Readapting Popular Icons in Twenty-first-century Film and Popular Media (Lexington, 2021). Piatti-Farnell is sole editor of the Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies book series, as well as co-editor (together with Professor Carl Sederholm) of the Horror Studies series for Lexington Books. She is the principal editor of The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture.
Contact: Auckland University of Technology, 55 Wellesley Street East, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010, New Zealand.
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