Martin Barker And Ernest Mathijs (eds), Watching The Lord Of The Rings: Tolkien's World Audiences

摘要

When this book first came my way, my heart sank a little. With my fellow New Zealanders, I live in a post-Tbe Lord of the Rings world and even though many of my peers look back on those times (2001-4) as a golden age, when the world stopped by to admire the global film-making abilities of a small South Pacific nation, my responses have always been mixed. 1 have never really liked Tolkien's fantasies of a feudalistic and paternalistic Utopia, and the Peter Jackson-directed film trilogy did little to change my mind.