Scrutinising the rainbow: fantastic space in The Wizard of Oz

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dc.contributor.authorSergeant, Alexanderen
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-02T15:07:52Z
dc.date.available2012-08-02T15:07:52Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractThe Wizard of Oz is not only an iconic film but an iconic fantasy film. An unwillingness to describe it as such within film studies points to a long history of the fantasy genre’s critical neglect. Dissecting the intrinsically cinematic apparatus of space, this article will seek to demonstrate how The Wizard of Oz functions as a fantasy film. Specifically, it will scrutinise how the film attempts to elicit a positive and reassuring encounter with a sense of the magical that seems tied to the genre’s unique aesthetic pleasures. As the film demarcates a mimetic sense of reality, Kansas, from another magical space wherein the fantasy elements of the narrative takes place, Oz, its sense of space hesitates between a sense of the real and the unreal in a manner similar to that originally described in Tzvetan Todorov’s The Fantastic. The Wizard of Oz would seem to operate a similarly fantastic sense of space, constructing a relationship between the two realms that oscillates between the virtues of both as it celebrates the values of the homely and the otherworldly, the familiar and the new in order that it might mitigate its potential traumas and showcase its joys.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationSergeant, A. (2011) 'Scrutinising the rainbow: fantastic space in The Wizard of Oz', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2 (Winter 2011). https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.2.01en
dc.identifier.doi10.33178/alpha.2.01
dc.identifier.endpage18en
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078en
dc.identifier.issued2en
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphavilleen
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage4en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/681
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.ispartofAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.rights© 2011, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectThe Wizard of Ozen
dc.subjectFantasyen
dc.subjectClassical Hollywooden
dc.subjectSpaceen
dc.subjectMagicen
dc.subjectRealen
dc.subjectUnrealen
dc.subjectOzen
dc.subjectKansasen
dc.subjectTzvetan Todoroven
dc.titleScrutinising the rainbow: fantastic space in The Wizard of Ozen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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