Fantasy Fiction into Film

Leslie Stratyner, a professor of English at Mississippi University for Women, lives in Columbus, Mississippi. James R. Keller is a professor and chair of the English and Theatre department at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky. The author or editor of numerous works about popular culture, he lives in Lexington, Kentucky.

Table of Contents



Introduction: Fantasy Fiction into Film     



1. Three Rings for Hollywood: Scripts for The Lord of the Rings     

2. I Don’t Think We’re in Kansas Anymore: Peter Jackson’s Film Interpretations of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings     

3. “‘Tree and flower, leaf and grass’: The Grammar of Middle-earth in The Lord of the Rings”     

4. “My brothers, I see in your eyes the same fear”: The Transformation of Class Relations in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings Trilogy     

5. The Lion, the Witch, and the War Scenes: How Narnia Went from Allegory to Action Flick     

6. The Lion, the Witch and the Multiplex     

7. Buckets of Money: Tim Burton’s New Charlie and the Chocolate Factory     

8. Charlie’s Evolving Moral Universe: Filmic Interpretations of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory     

9. The Americanization of Mary: Contesting Cultural Narratives in Disney’s Mary Poppins     

10. Animating the Fantastic: Hayao Miyazaki’s Adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones’s Howl’s Moving Castle     

11. From Book to Film: The Implications of the Transformation of The Polar Express     

12. From Peter Pan to Finding Neverland: A Visual Biomythography of James M. Barrie     

13. From Witch to Wicked: A Mutable and Transformational Sign     

14. From Private Practice to Public Coven(ant): Alice Hoffman’s Practical Magic and Its Hollywood Transformation     



About the Contributors     

Index