Fantasy fiction into film : essays

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Introduction: Fantasy Fiction into Film (Leslie Stratyner and James Keller)

Three Rings for Hollywood: Scripts for The Lord of the Rings by Zimmerman, Boorman, and Beagle (Janet Brennan Croft)

I Don't Think We're in Kansas Anymore: Peter Jackson's Film Interpretations of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings (Gwendolyn A. Morgan)

"'Tree and Flower, Leaf and Grass': The Grammar of Middle-earth in The Lord of the Rings" (Robin Anne Reid)

"My Brothers, I see in your eyes the same fear": The Transformation of Class Relations in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Sharon D. McCoy)

The Lion, the Witch, and the War Scenes: How Narnia Went from Allegory to Action Flick (Megan Stoner)

The Lion, the Witch and the Multiplex (Paul Tankard)

Buckets of Money: Tim Burton's New Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Elizabeth Parsons)

Charlie's Evolving Moral Universe: Filmic Interpretations of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (June Pulliam)

The Americanization of Mary: Contesting Cultural Narratives in Disney's Mary Poppins (Donald Levin)

Animating the Fantastic: Hayao Miyazaki's Adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones's Howl's Moving Castle (Matt Kimmich)

From Book to Film: The Implications of the Transformation of The Polar Express (Eric Sterling)

From Peter Pan to Finding Neverland: A Visual Biomythography of James M. Barrie (Sarah E. Maier)

From Witch to Wicked: A Mutable and Transformational Sign (Jessica Zebrine Gray)

From Private Practice to Public Coven(ant): Alice Hoffman's Practical Magic and Its Hollywood Transformation (Kathy Davis Patterson)

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