"The Wizard of Oz was my very first literary influence," writes Salman Rushdie in his account of the great MGM children's classic. At the age of ten he had written a story, "Over the Rainbow," about a colorful fantasy world. But for Rushdie The Wizard of Oz is more than a children's film, and more than a fantasy. It's a story whose driving force is the inadequacy of adults, where the weakness of grown-ups forces children to take control of their own destinies. Rushdie rejects the conventional view that its fantasy of escape from reality ends with a comforting return to home, sweet home. On the contrary, it is a film that speaks to the exile. The Wizard of Oz shows that imagination can become reality, that there is no such place like home, or rather that the only home is the one we make for ourselves. Rushdie's brilliant insights into a film more often seen than written about are rounded off with a typically scintillating new short story, "At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers," about the day when Dorothy's red shoes are knocked down to $15,000 at a sale of MGM props.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
BFI Publishing
ISBN-10
0851703003
ISBN-13
9780851703008
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1174050
Product Key Features
Book Title
Wizard of Oz
Author
Salman Rushdie
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Film / Guides & Reviews, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
1992
Genre
Performing Arts
Number of Pages
96 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.5in
Item Height
0.2in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
4.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Copyright Date
1992
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
791.4372
Series
Bfi Film Classics Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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