Janice Bogstad and Philip Kaveny are the editors of Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy, now available for pre-order from McFarland.
Tolkien scholar and Mythprint editor Jason Fisher recently revealed the Table of Contents on his blog – the full list follows the jump.
- I. Introduction: Tolkien And Cinema / Janice M. Bogstad and Philip Kaveny
- II. Techniques of Structure and Story
- Gollum talks to Himself: Problems and Solutions in the Film Adaptation of The Lord of the Rings / Kristin Thompson
- Sometimes One Word is Worth a Thousand Pictures / Verlyn Flieger
- Two Kinds of Absence: Elision &Exclusion in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings / John D. Rateliff
- Tolkien’s Resistance to Linearity: Narrating The Lord of the Rings in Fiction and Film / E.L. Risden
- Filming Folklore: Adapting Fantasy for the Big Screen through Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings / Dimitra Fimi
- Making the Connection on Page and Screen in Tolkien’s and Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings / Yvette Kisor
- ‘It’s Alive!’ Tolkien’s Monster on the Screen / Sharin Schroeder
- The Matériel of Middle-earth: Arms, and Armour in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy / Robert C. Woosnam-Savage
- Into the West: Far Green Country or Shadow on the Waters? / Judy Ann Ford and Robin Anne Reid
- Frodo Lives but Gollum Redeems the Blood of Kings / Philip E. Kaveny
- The Grey Pilgrim: Gandalf and the Challenges of Characterization in Middle-Earth [sic] / Brian Walter
- Jackson’s Aragorn and the American Superhero Monomyth / Janet Brennan Croft
- Neither the Shadow nor the Twilight: the Love Story of Aragorn and Arwen in Literature and Film / Richard C. West
- Concerning Horses: Establishing Cultural Settings from Tolkien to Jackson / Janice M. Bogstad
- The Rohirrim, the Anglo-Saxons, and the Problem of Appendix F: Ambiguity and Reference in Tolkien’s Books and Jackson’s Films / Michael D.C. Drout
- Filming the Numinous: the Fate of Lothlorien in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings / Joseph Ricke and Catherine Barnett
III. Techniques of Character and Culture
Thanx so much this really makes Jan and I want to come to Mythcon.