How We Became Middleearth Cormare Series No 13 Adam Lam by Adam Lam, Nataliya Oryshchuk 9783905703078, 3905703076 instant download after payment.

Following the release in 2001 of the first film of Peter Jackson?s adapted trilogy of J.R.R. Tolkien?s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, a wave of ?Ring Fever? swamped the world, with reprints of the novel, guidebooks, Internet sites, memorabilia and toys, video and computer games, location tours and extended DVDs. Taking a Cultural Studies perspective, this collection of essays examines the cultural issues generated by Tolkien?s novel and Jackson?s films. In particular, by applying a variety of cultural, media and literary theories, the essays in this collection attempt to answer the question: How did we become Middle-earth? Topics covered range from fan culture in an age of IT, globalization, transnational capitalism and consumerism to the local socio-political implications of the Rings tale, and the formation of a Middle-earth in our real (or, as argued by the French philosopher Jean Beaudrillard, our no longer real but hyperreal) world.