L. Frank Baum's World of Oz: A Classic Series at 100 [Hardcover]

Suzanne Rahn (Editor)

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Hardcover: 148 pages
Publisher: Scarecrow Press (April 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0810843803
ISBN-13: 978-0810843806
Product Dimensions: 2.2 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 249 g

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...Rahn takes seriously the proposition that Baum deserves some consideration not just as a children's writer but as a representative figure in American cultural history....Rahn's crisply written and thoroughly researched introduction surveying a century's worth of popular, scholarly, and pedagogical responses to Oz, will be particularly useful....this is a good reference work and deserves recognition as such... (Utopian Studies )

An intriguing and eclectic sampling of recent critical analyses of the Oz books, their creator, and the larger Oz phenomenon. (The Baum Bugle )

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Although L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published one hundred years ago, literary critics and historians continue to discover new approaches to the fantastic world of Oz. The second in a new series of anthologies sponsored by the Children's Literature Association, this collection of essays represents some of the most interesting of these new approaches.

Beginning with a glance back over the entire history of research and commentary on the Oz books, this work is organized in three main sections. Essays in the "Origins of Oz" examine Frank Baum's personal history and unlock the mystery of one of the most bizarre episodes in the Oz books. "The World of Oz" looks at three very different aspects of Baum's world: its concept of home and family, its sense of humor, and its relationship to its young readers. "Oz on Screen" features both the silent films Baum produced himself and MGM's classic movie The Wizard of Oz.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Oz gets full scholarly approach, Mar 16 2004

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This review is from: L. Frank Baum's World of Oz: A Classic Series at 100 (Hardcover)

This collection of nine essays published by the Children�¿s Literature Association takes a scholarly approach to L. Frank Baum�¿s popular children�¿s books and the 1939 MGM movie. Written primarily by college and university professors in English, Literature, History, and Film, these well-written and insightful articles provide detailed analysis of the Oz phenomena in American culture.

The book divides the essays into three sections: Origins of Oz; The World of Oz; and, Oz On Stage And Screen. There is also an Introductory review article which looks back on the first one hundred years of Oz criticism called �¿Analyzing Oz: The First Hundred Years.�¿

The essays look at Baum�¿s frontier days in South Dakota, the origins of his vegetable characters, the meanings of home and humor in Baum�¿s works, different schools of Ozian criticism, Fred Stone�¿s portrayal of the Scarecrow, Baum as the first filmaker of Oz, and Dorothy as a cultural icon. The text is illustrated with black and white drawings and pictures and each essay has a bibliography of sources.

Reading criticism of Baum and Oz is no where near as much fun as reading the original works themselves. But after you have read Baum�¿s writings, it is useful to see how historians and academics view the cultural phenomenon that is Oz.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Oz gets full scholarly approach, Mar 16 2004

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This review is from: L. Frank Baum's World of Oz: A Classic Series at 100 (Hardcover)

This collection of nine essays published by the Childrens Literature Association takes a scholarly approach to L. Frank Baums popular childrens books and the 1939 MGM movie. Written primarily by college and university professors in English, Literature, History, and Film, these well-written and insightful articles provide detailed analysis of the Oz phenomena in American culture.

The essays look at Baums frontier days in South Dakota, the origins of his vegetable characters, the meanings of home and humor in Baums works, different schools of Ozian criticism, Fred Stones portrayal of the Scarecrow, Baum as the first filmaker of Oz, and Dorothy as a cultural icon. The text is illustrated with black and white drawings and pictures and each essay has a bibliography of sources.

Reading criticism of Baum and Oz is no where near as much fun as reading the original works themselves. But after you have read Baums writings, it is useful to see how historians and academics view the cultural phenomenon that is Oz.

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