Showing posts with label Glinda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Glinda. Show all posts
21 January 2025

Two More Oziana Short Stories

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Last week’s posting about a mystery story in Oziana 2024 made me realize I’d never noted Oziana 2023, which contains two of my stories. ...
18 June 2024

The Missing Princess of the Marvelous Land

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I’ve been thinking about how The Marvelous Land of Oz could be more of a mystery. As it is, the book is a roller-coaster ride of political ...
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04 April 2022

The Opening of the Emerald City

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My last posting explored the location of the original gateway into the Emerald City, the one Dorothy and her friends use in L. Frank Baum’s ...
18 July 2020

OzCon Preview: “Glinda the Good and Powerful” Panel

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Tonight I’ll be moderating a panel discussion for OzCon 2020 , which because of the pandemic will be online instead of in California. Our...
01 December 2015

Oz Art to Wish for from Linda Medley

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This is one of the most potent images from the Oz book mythos: Dorothy is wearing the Magic Belt and making a wish. Something’s gonna happ...
28 March 2013

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the Bechdel Test

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Critics of Oz the Great and Powerful have been lauding L. Frank Baum ’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a first-wave feminist fable, but I...
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26 March 2013

Gender Politics in the Latest Oz

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I’ve noted a couple of feminist critiques of Oz the Great and Powerful , one from Aisha Harris based on early previews and another from Eli...
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20 March 2013

What Oz the Great and Powerful Draws from Baum’s Works

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The credits for Oz the Great and Powerful say the movie is “Based on the Works of L. Frank Baum .” Those works are in the public domain, ...
19 March 2013

Inspiration Bubbling Up

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Even with the relatively awkward special effects of 1939, Glinda’s pink bubble in The Wizard of Oz is an American icon. So much so that t...
07 March 2013

Of Witches and Women

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At Film.com, Elisabeth Rappe offers an essay titled “Why ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’ Is a Major Step Back for Witches and Women.” It buil...
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05 March 2013

Yes, I’ve Heard About the New Movie

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Soon after I first joined the International Wizard of Oz Club in late 1976, its journal, The Baum Bugle , was full of articles about the ma...
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29 January 2013

A Darker Dorothy in London

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Opening next month at the Immersion Theatre in London , Dorothy in Oz , a “skewed adaptation” of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of O...
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08 January 2013

Prince Bobo’s Place in Nature

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This is the frontispiece from Thomas Huxley ’s Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature (1863). It shows the skeletons of four apes and a hum...
06 December 2012

Glinda by Thomas Haller Buchanan

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While working on the last couple of posts about Glinda , I ran across this portrait of the Good Sorceress by Thomas Haller Buchanan. A wat...
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05 December 2012

Glinda as a "respectable sorceress”

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As I wrote yesterday , in The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904) L. Frank Baum started describing Glinda the Good as a “Sorceress” instead of ...
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04 December 2012

“Baum’s audience sensed a threat”?

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In an essay on witches in The New Yorker last month, Michelle Dean wrote: We’ve always had a good witch to go with the bad, of course. ...
27 November 2012

Oz, the Small and Meek

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At Slate, Aisha Harris raised some serious questions about Sam Raimi’s upcoming movie Oz, the Great and Powerful , based on the most recent...
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16 October 2012

Theories of the Great Book of Records

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In the third issue of his Ozopolis comic book ( available here ), Kirk Kushin offers a theory about Glinda the Good ’s Great Book of Reco...
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30 May 2012

Reconciling with the Wizard of Oz

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Yesterday I described a review of a latter-day Oz book by Hugh Pendexter III. Among Oz fans he’s best known for his short book Oz and the...
10 April 2012

Children Got Travelin’ Shoes

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Rehearsals continue for Brooklyn P.S. 29’s fifth-grade production of The Wizard of Oz , as chronicled by co-director Helene Stapinski : At ...