January 2023
Intermediate to advanced
442 pages
15h
English
Rare is the film where the children’s world is the center and where children are more complex beings. The MGM film version of the Frank Baum classic The Wizard of Oz (1939) is such a film.
The Wizard of Oz is about a real world, Kansas, and an imagined world, Oz. Part musical and part fable, it audaciously pictorializes the world of its main character, Dorothy. Structurally, fables have an overabundance of plot relative to other genres; they also feature a variable tone and are unified by the moral of the story. The Wizard of Oz doesn’t shirk anxiety, and it relies on imaginatively doubling the characters in Dorothy’s ...
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