Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy

by Philip E. Kaveny

This group of new critical essays offers multidisciplinary analysis of director Peter Jackson's spectacularly successful adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002) and The Return of the King (2003). Part One of the collection, "Techniques of Structure and Story," compares and contrasts the organizational principles of the books and films. Part...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786446366
• ISBN13: 9780786446360
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher