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| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction: Researching The Lord of the Rings: Audiences and Contexts |
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The Lord of the Rings: Selling the Franchise |
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21 | (16) |
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An Avalanche of Attention: The Prefiguration and Reception of The Lord of the Rings |
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37 | (22) |
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Promotional Frame Makers and the Meaning of the Text: The Case of The Lord of the Rings |
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59 | (10) |
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What Do Female Fans Want? Blockbusters, The Return of the King, and U.S. Audiences |
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69 | (14) |
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The Books, the DVDs, the Extras, and Their Lovers |
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83 | (20) |
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Understanding Disappointment: The Australian Book Lovers and Adaptation |
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103 | (8) |
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Involvement in The Lord of the Rings: Audience Strategies and Orientations |
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111 | (20) |
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Global Flows and Local Identifications? The Lord of the Rings and the Cross-National Reception of Characters and Genres |
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131 | (18) |
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The Functions of Fantasy: A Comparison of Audiences for The Lord of the Rings in Twelve Countries |
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149 | (32) |
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Beyond Words? The Return of the King and the Pleasures of the Text |
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181 | (10) |
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Heroism in The Return of the King |
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Jose Javier Sanchez Aranda |
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The Fantasy of Reading: Moments of Reception of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
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199 | (8) |
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Understanding Text as Cultural Practice and as Dynamic Process of Making |
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Our Methodological Challenges and Solutions |
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| Appendix: The World Data Set |
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| Notes |
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| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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