UID:
kobvindex_INTEBC470989
Format:
1 online resource (431 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780520932876
Content:
"Once in a lifetime." The phrase comes up over and over from the people who worked on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings. The film's seventeen Oscars, record-setting earnings, huge fan base, and hundreds of ancillary products attest to its importance and to the fact that Rings is far more than a film. Its makers seized a crucial moment in Hollywood--the special effects digital revolution plus the rise of "infotainment" and the Internet--to satisfy the trilogy's fans while fostering a huge new international audience. The resulting franchise of franchises has earned billions of dollars to date with no end in sight. Kristin Thompson interviewed seventy-six people to examine the movie's scripting and design and the new technologies deployed to produce the films, video games, and DVDs. She demonstrates the impact Rings had on the companies that made it, on the fantasy genre, on New Zealand, and on independent cinema. In fast-paced, compulsively readable prose, she affirms Jackson's Rings as one the most important films ever made
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface and acknowledgments -- List of interviews -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: sequel-itis -- Part One: The Film -- 1 / Prudent Aggression -- 2 / Not Your Father's Tolkien -- 3 / Handcrafting a Blockbuster -- Part two: Building the franchise -- 4 / Flying Billboards and FAQs -- 5 / Click to View Trailer -- 6 / Fans on the Margins, Pervy Hobbit Fanciers, and Party goers -- Part three: Beyond the movie -- 7 / Licenses to Print Money -- 8 / Interactive Middle-earth -- Part Four: The Lasting power of the rings -- 9 / Fantasy Come True -- 10 / Right in Your Own Backyard -- Notes -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Thompson, Kristin The Frodo Franchise Berkeley : University of California Press,c2007 ISBN 9780520258136
Language:
English
Keywords:
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