The Lord of the Rings: Narrative Elements in the Novel and the Movie
Book Details
Author(s)Filip Petrovic
ISBN / ASINB01B16G8ZW
ISBN-13978B01B16G8Z2
Sales Rank1,108,862
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
A different view (concise, condensed and argumentative) on the narrative techniques and elements in The Lord of the Rings the novel and the movie.
Adapting literary works to silver screen has been a major point of interest among film directors and producers since the earliest stages of film development. During the twentieth century numerous movie adaptations of novels, short stories, dramas and other publications were realized, but little room was devoted to the adaptations of fantasy works, mainly because of the inability to transfer the elements of fantasy to the big screen. However, recent development in movie technology and technique sparked a new interest in fantasy adaptation and we have been witnesses of major changes happening in movie industry regarding science fiction and fantasy genres. One of the most important fantasy novels from the middle of the twentieth century, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings saw its full movie adaptation at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This book deals with the key points of narrative technique in the novel and the movie The Lord of the Rings, and the problems of transferring a narrative from one medium to another.
The book is divided into two main parts, one dealing with the novel (which is more theoretical and provides a deeper analysis of storytelling in the novel) and the other dealing with the movie (which is more of a discussion on how the narrative changes in the process of adaptation). Mieke Bal's Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative and Gérard Genette's Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method, supplemented by Gerald Prince's Dictionary of Narratology, are used in order to pinpoint the main characteristics of narrative in the book. The analysis of the narrative technique in the film is based on Kristin Thompsons's theory presented in Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative Technique, together with the video testimonies of Peter Jackson, the movie director, and the crew which worked on the film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings.
This book's purpose is to give a closer look at narrative technique J.R.R.Tolkien used while writing the book and narrative technique Peter Jackson used when creating the movie, to examine the question of adaptability of the narrative technique used during the adaptation and to give a small insight into what changes in the process of transferring characters, places and events that we love, from the novel into the movie. Reading this book will help you see the subtleties of the Lord of the Rings that cannot be regularly and easily noticed and also arm you with the knowledge of narrative elements in storytelling in novels and movies through the analysis of The Lord of the Rings. The book can be read either as a critical source or additional information on narration/storytelling, depending on the requirements a reader has, but it is mostly helpful to fans of Tolkien's/Jackson's works and those who would like to find out more about the intricacies of storytelling.
Adapting literary works to silver screen has been a major point of interest among film directors and producers since the earliest stages of film development. During the twentieth century numerous movie adaptations of novels, short stories, dramas and other publications were realized, but little room was devoted to the adaptations of fantasy works, mainly because of the inability to transfer the elements of fantasy to the big screen. However, recent development in movie technology and technique sparked a new interest in fantasy adaptation and we have been witnesses of major changes happening in movie industry regarding science fiction and fantasy genres. One of the most important fantasy novels from the middle of the twentieth century, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings saw its full movie adaptation at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This book deals with the key points of narrative technique in the novel and the movie The Lord of the Rings, and the problems of transferring a narrative from one medium to another.
The book is divided into two main parts, one dealing with the novel (which is more theoretical and provides a deeper analysis of storytelling in the novel) and the other dealing with the movie (which is more of a discussion on how the narrative changes in the process of adaptation). Mieke Bal's Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative and Gérard Genette's Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method, supplemented by Gerald Prince's Dictionary of Narratology, are used in order to pinpoint the main characteristics of narrative in the book. The analysis of the narrative technique in the film is based on Kristin Thompsons's theory presented in Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative Technique, together with the video testimonies of Peter Jackson, the movie director, and the crew which worked on the film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings.
This book's purpose is to give a closer look at narrative technique J.R.R.Tolkien used while writing the book and narrative technique Peter Jackson used when creating the movie, to examine the question of adaptability of the narrative technique used during the adaptation and to give a small insight into what changes in the process of transferring characters, places and events that we love, from the novel into the movie. Reading this book will help you see the subtleties of the Lord of the Rings that cannot be regularly and easily noticed and also arm you with the knowledge of narrative elements in storytelling in novels and movies through the analysis of The Lord of the Rings. The book can be read either as a critical source or additional information on narration/storytelling, depending on the requirements a reader has, but it is mostly helpful to fans of Tolkien's/Jackson's works and those who would like to find out more about the intricacies of storytelling.
