In the News: The Wizard of Oz

Week of October 5, 2009

News Item: The Wizard of Oz, a 1939 MGM classic based on the book by L. Frank Baum, recently turned 70. Here are titles related to the culture of Oz.

The Age of William A. Dunning: The Realm of Myth Meets the Yellow Brick Road (FAU Dissertation)
By Kathleen P. Barsalou. Florida Atlantic University, 2008
Call Number: NX001.5 .B377 2008 (Also available online)

The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity
By Raymond Knapp. Princeton University Press, 2006
Call NUmber: ML2054 .K6 2006

The Annotated Wizard of Oz: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
By L. Frank Baum. Edited by Michael Patrick Hearn. Norton, 2000
Call Number: PS3503 .A723 W59 2000

Down the Yellow Brick Road: The Making of the Wizard of Oz
By Doug McClelland. Bonanza Books, 1989
Call Number: PN1997 .W593 M34 1989

The Eighth Lively Art: Conversations with Painters, Poets, Musicians & the Wicked Witch of the West
By Wesley Wehr. University of Washington Press, 2000
Call Number: NX509 .A1 W44 2000

The Emerald City and Other Essays on the Architectural Imagination
By Daniel Willis. Princeton Architectural Press, 1999
Call Number: NA2543 .S6 W525 1999

Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story
By Evan I. Schwartz. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009
Call Number: PS3503 .A923 W5987 2009

Flaming Classics: Queering the Film Canon
By Alexander Doty. Routledge, 2000
Call Number: PN1995.9 .H55 D68 2000 (Also available online via NetLibrary)

Framing Monsters: Fantasy Film and Social Alienation
By Joshua David Bellin. Southern Illinois University Press, 2005
Call Number: PN1995.9 .F36 B45 2005

The Historian’s Wizard of Oz: Reading L. Frank Baum’s Classic As a Political and Monetary Allegory
Edited by Ranjit S. Dighe. Praeger, 2002
Call Number: PN1997 .W593 N38 1991

Hollywood Musicals Nominated for Best Picture
By Frederick G. Vogel. McFarland & Co., 2003
Call Number: PN1995.9 .M86 V64 2003

Home in Hollywood: The Imaginary Geography of Cinema
By Elizabeth Bronfen. Columbia University Press, 2004
Call Number: PN1994 .B71913 2004

Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture
Edited by Henry Jenkins, Tara McPherson & Jane Shattuc. Duke University Press, 2002
Call Number: E169.1 .H77 2002

L. Frank Baum: Royal Historian of Oz
By Angelica Shirley Carpenter and Jean Shirley. Lerner Publications Co., 1992
Call Number: PS3503 .A923 Z63 1991

L. Frank Baum, Creator of Oz
By Katharine M. Rogers. St. Martin’s Press, 2002
Call Number: PS3503 .A923 Z86 2002

Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Meyer
By Scott Eyman. Simon & Schuster, 2005
Call Number: PN1998.3 .M397 E94 2005

The Making of The Wizard of Oz: Movie Magic and Studio Power in the Prime of MGM and the Miracle of Production #1060
By Aljean Harmetz. Dell Pub., 1989
Call Number: PN1997 .W593 H3 1989

Oz and Beyond: The Fantasy World of L. Frank Baum
By Michael O’Neal Riley. University Press of Kansas, 1997
Call Number: PS3503 .A923 Z85 1997

Oz Before the Rainbow: L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Ozon Stage and Screen to 1939
By Mark Evan Swartz. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000
Call Number: PS3503 .A923 W6385 2000 (Also available online via NetLibrary)

Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice: Cinemas of Girlhood
Edited by Frances Gateward and Murray Pomerance. Wayne State University Press, 2002
Call Number: PN1995.9 .G57 S84 2002

The Theory of Oz: Rediscovering the Aims of Education
By Howard Good. Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2005
Call Number: LB41 .G64 2005 (At Port St. Lucie)

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West: A Novel
By Gregory Maguire. Harper, 2007
Call Number: PS3563 .A3535 W5 2007

The Wizard of Oz
By L. Frank Baum. Schocken Books, 1983
Call Number: PS3503 .A923 W59

The Wizard of Oz
By L. Frank Baum. North-South Books, 1996
Call Number: PZ7 .B327 Wj 1996 (Children’s Literature Collection)

The Wizard of Oz (DVD)
Directed by Victor Fleming. Warner Home Video, 1999
Call Number: PN1997 .W592 1999 (At Jupiter)

Wizard of Oz (VHS)
Directed by Larry Semon. Video Yesteryear, 1987
Call Number: VH 4211

The Wizard of Oz: The Screenplay
By Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson & Edgar Allan Woolf. Delta Books, 1989
Call Number: PN1997 .W59 1989

The Wizardry of Oz: The Artistry and Magic of the 1939 M-G-M Classic
By Jay Scarfone and William Stillman. Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2004
Call Number: PN1997 .W593 S19 2004

Writers at the Movies: Twenty-Six Contemporary Authors Celebrate Twenty-Six Memorable Movies
Edited by Jim Shepard. Perennial, 2000
Call Number: PN1995 .W73 2000