Kristin Thompson

University of Wisconsin–Madison | UW · Department of Communication Arts

Two early projects to adapt The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit proved unviable, though one resulted in a little-known 12-minute animated adaptation of the latter. After the Ballantine paperbacks appeared in the United States in 1965 and created a huge fan following for Tolkien, in 1969 United Artists purchased the production and distribution righ...

Publication of a surface find from Amarna, an over life-size limestone ear which was possibly a sculptor's practice piece. This may point to the existence of an unexcavated sculptor's workshop, as well as providing further evidence for colossal statuary at Amarna.

During the 1970s, when I was a graduate student in film studies, UPA had a presence in the academy and among cinephiles that it has since lost. With 16 mm distribution thriving and the films only around twenty years old, one could still see Rooty Toot Toot or The Unicorn in the Garden occasionally. In the decades since, UPA and the modern style it...

Bibliogr. s. 805-818

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Films that fail at the box office may be of interest to historians for various reasons. They may be aesthetically worthy films that did not deserve to fail and warrant having attention called to them. Their failures may reveal something about the workings of the production system that...

Once in a lifetime. The phrase comes up over and over from the people who worked on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings. The film's seventeen Oscars, record-setting earnings, huge fan base, and hundreds of ancillary products attest to its importance and to the fact that Rings is far more than a film. Its makers seized a crucial moment in Hollywoo...

In May of 2003, news circulated on the internet that Professors Ernest Mathijs and Martin Barker, both then based at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, were launching an international study of the media coverage of and fan reactions to the third part of Peter Jackson's film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. The results, culled from over twent...

In 1992 188 pieces of a shattered granodiorite dyad depicting Akhenaten and Nefertiti seated beside each other were found in an excavation dump at Tell el-Amarna. Considerable evidence shows that the pieces had originally been discovered in 1912 by Ludwig Borchardt's expedition in the complex of the sculptor Thutmose, along with a matching granodio...

Tolkien Studies 3 (2006) 222-228 There are many academic or quasi-academic books on various aspects of Peter Jackson's film of The Lord of the Rings in the works, and Tolkien on Film is, as far as I know, the first to see print. Indeed, its timing does not escape charges of opportunism. Although all the authors take as definitive the extended-editi...

In 1992 188 pieces of a shattered granodiorite dyad depicting Akhenaten and Nefertiti seated beside each other were found in an excavation dump at Tell el-Amarna. Considerable evidence shows that the pieces had originally been discovered in 1912 by Ludwig Borchardt's expedition in the complex of the sculptor Thutmose, along with a matching granodio...

The Velvet Light Trap 52 (2003) 45-63 —Gandalf to Bilbo in J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring Three of the seven films that have grossed over $800,000,000 worldwide were released within a five-month period, and all three were fantasy films: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (number 2, released November 2001, gross $965,700,000), The L...

Derided as simple, dismissed as inferior to film, famously characterized as a vast wasteland, television nonetheless exerts an undeniable, apparently inescapable power in our culture. The secret of television's success may well lie in the remarkable narrative complexities underlying its seeming simplicity, complexities Kristin Thompson unmasks in t...

THE CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD CINEMA: FILM STYLE AND MODE OF PRODUCTION TO 1960 by David Bordwell, Janet Staiger, and Kristin Thompson (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985 -- $49.95)

Barry Salt. Film Style and Technology: History and Analysis. London: Starword, 1983. 408 pp.

If technology were the only factor determining the creation of motion pictures, animated films would logically share a prominence equal to that of live-action films in the history of the cinema. Certainly the optical toys generally credited with having led up to the invention of the cinématographe, were more often dependent upon drawings than photo...

Ernst Lubitsch, the German film director who left Berlin for Hollywood in 1923, is best remembered for the famous "Lubitsch touch" in such masterpieces as Trouble in Paradise and Ninotchka, featuring Greta Garbo. Kristin Thompson's study focuses on Lubitsch's silent films from the years between 1918 and 1927, tracing the impact this director had on...

Análisis de las condiciones básicas de la producción cinematográfica en Estados Unidos, vista como una institución histórica y una empresa de producción, asentada en Hollywood, sistemática tanto en su estilo como en sus operaciones comerciales.

Traducción de: Film Art. An introduction Obra sobre la estética del cine, es decir, sobre sus dimensiones y características como obra de arte.

Incluye índice Traducción de: The Classical Hollywood Cinema. Film Style & Mode of Production to 1960 Incluye bibliografía Análisis de las condiciones básicas de la producción cinematográfica en Estados Unidos, vista como una institución histórica y una empresa de producción, asentada en Hollywood, sistemática tanto en su estilo como en sus operaci...

Thesis--Wisconsin. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 444-452).

Traducción de:Film art: an introduction Incluye bibliografía e índice

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