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Mark Evan Swartz. Oz Before the Rainbow: L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz on Stage and Screen to 1939.(Book Review)

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From: Utopian Studies
Date: 20030101
Author:Karp, Andrew

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xii + 291 pp. $18.95 (paper).

IN THE PAST CENTURY, the land of Oz has become enshrined among the utopian places specifically attractive to and inhabited by children. Ranking with Peter Pan's Never-Never Land and Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood, Oz presents an emerald colored and relatively safe place which preserved the utopian vision of 19th century America, so badly wounded in the 20th, by sending it back from the brooks and the farms to an imaginary and childlike realm, entered only by cyclone or shipwreck, peopled by animated ...

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