[Lotr_announce] NEW BOOK: The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood (Hardcover)

[Michael Regina (Xoanon)]

Hi all,

I'm dropping you a line to tell you about Kristin Thompson's new book 'The
Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood', it is an
excellent read, a must have for any Tolkien fan, old and new!

Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0520247744/theoneringnet
Amazon.ca:  http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0520247744/theoneringnet

Book Description

"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.

>From the Inside Flap

"This is the best all-around view of the Tolkien phenomenon. Thompson
understands the books, she understands the movies--she also understands the
money and the franchising. Best of all, she understands the people. Thompson
offers cultural criticism of the highest order, examining one of the most
significant shifts in contemporary popular media."--Tom Shippey, author of
The Road to Middle-earth

"Reading these chapters has been an absolute pleasure. It's all so complex
but so succinct. Thompson has managed to do what so many others have failed
to do . . . in chapter one, she has explained how all the rights to LOTR
bounced around, and were finally sorted so Peter Jackson could make the
movie. I've never understood the complexities of how that worked until
now!"--Judy Alley, Merchandising Coordinator, The Lord of the Rings

"I must say that Thompson has written the definitive study of Peter
Jackson's work in creating this remarkable production entity."--Alex Funke,
ASC, Oscar-winning Visual Effects Director of Photography, miniatures unit,
The Lord of the Rings

"I had a wonderful time reading those chapters! There's so much I don't know
about what went on--I am in awe of all the research Thompson has done. It is
an extremely interesting read! There's so much there that I'd forgotten and
I always wished there was a permanent record of many things that happened.
Thompson's account of TORN's beginnings and how it functioned gets it
absolutely right--more than that, Thompson captures how it felt to us at the
time. Nobody else has managed to get enough of an understanding to do
that."--Erica Challis ("Tehanu"), co-founder of TheOneRing.net

Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0520247744/theoneringnet
Amazon.ca:  http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0520247744/theoneringnet


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