The Characters of Oz

Essays on Their Adaptation and Transformation

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196 Seiten

2023
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-8797-1 (ISBN)

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When L. Frank Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, he created an American myth that has endured the test of time. This collection of essays follows Baum’s archetypal characters as they’ve changed over time in order to examine what those changes mean in relation to Oz, American culture and basic human truths.

When L. Frank Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, he created an American myth that has endured the test of time. Echoes of Dorothy and her friends are everywhere: popular television shows often have an Oz episode, novelists borrow character types and echo familiar scenes, and every media--from Broadway to The Muppets--has some variation or continuation of Baum's work.

This collection of essays follows Baum's archetypal characters as they've changed over time in order to examine what those changes mean in relation to Oz, American culture and basic human truths. Essays also serve as a bridge between academia and fandom, with contributors representing a cross-section of Oz scholarship from backgrounds including The International Wizard of Oz Club and the Children's Literature Association.

Dina Schiff Massachi has written and presented numerous academic essays on Baum’s Oz and its various adaptations. She also appeared in the “American Oz” episode of PBS’s American Experience. She is a lecturer for the American Studies program at UNC Charlotte; one of her favorite classes is a course on The Wizard of Oz.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Dina Schiff Massachi

Dorothy and the Heroine’s Quest

Mark I. West

But First, There Was a Scarecrow…

Katharine Kittredge

Heart Over Head: Evolving Views on Male Emotional Intelligence and the Tin Woodman

Dina Schiff Massachi

The Proto-Sissy, the Sissy, and Macho Men: The Cowardly Lion in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the MGM The Wizard of Oz, and Dark Oz Stories

Dee Michel and James Satter

A Good Man but a Bad Wizard? The Shifting Moral Character of the Wizard of

J.L. Bell

Witches, Wicked and Otherwise

Robert B. Luehrs

Witch’s Familiars or Winged Warriors? Liberating the Winged Monkeys

Dina Schiff Massachi

Glinda and Gender Performativity

Walter Squire

Ozma, Sorceresses, and Suffrage: Women, Power, and Politics in L. Frank Baum’s Land of

Mary Lenard

A Living Thing: The Very American Invention of Jack Pumpkinhead

Paige Gray

Trading Knitting Needles for Pistols: The Feminist, Violent, and Sexual Evolution of General Jinjur

Shannon Murphy

The Nome King

Angelica Shirley Carpenter

Piecing Together the Patchwork Girl of

Gita Dorothy Morena

Afterword: Frank and His Imagination

Robert Baum

Bibliography: Further Oz Readings, Fiction and Nonfiction

Dina Schiff Massachi

About the Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.07.2023
Zusatzinfo	15 photos, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	358 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4766-8797-8 / 1476687978
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-8797-1 / 9781476687971
Zustand	Neuware