Wizard Essays

The “The Wizard of Oz” is a beloved children’s story written by L. Frank Baum in 1900 and many historians have tried to come up with arguments that compare the mystical story with the movement of populism. All of these theories have some background but none of them are able …

When I was a child, each evening my mother would read from the novels of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum. The usual bedtime routine was filled with anticipation of that imaginary world of wonder, adventure, and excitement in which I would soon be enthralled. The once …

The Wizard of Oz (1939) uses both mise en scène and sound to create an immense sequence of dream imagery, particularly in the second to last scene where Dorothy is at the point of going back to Kansas. This scene is distinctly significant in terms of mise en scène and …