The Wizard of Oz (1939)








Young Dorothy Gale and her dog are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishes.


Books on The Wizard of Oz

Stephen Cox
The Munchkins of Oz
Nashville, Tenn., 2002

Salman Rushdie
The Wizard of Oz
London, 1992

John Fricke, Jay Scarfone and William Stillman
The Wizard of Oz, The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History
London, Sydney, Auckland, Toronto, 1989

Doug McClelland
Down the Yellow Brick Road, The Making of The Wizard of Oz
New York, 1976

Books with substantial mentioning of The Wizard of Oz

Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
There's no place like home, The migrant child in world cinema
London; New York, 2018

George M. Wilson
Seeing fictions in film, The epistemology of movies
Oxford; New York, 2011

Don Tyler
The Great Movie Musicals
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2010
pp. 327-330 info

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Alfred Holighaus (ed.)
Der Filmkanon, 35 Filme, die Sie kennen müssen
Bonn; Berlin, 2005

Elizabeth Bronfen
Home in Hollywood, The imaginary geography of cinema
New York, 2004

Roger Ebert
The Great Movies
2003

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Danny Peary
Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present
New York, 1993

Neil Sinyard
Classic Movies
London, 1993

Peter van Gelder
Offscreen Onscreen, The inside stories of 60 great films
London, 1990

Danny Peary
Cult Movies, The Classics, the Sleepers, the Weird, and the Wonderful
New York, 1989

Books with an entry on The Wizard of Oz

Denise Lowe
Women and American Television, An Encyclopedia
Santa Barbara, California - Denver, Colorado - Oxford, England, 1999

Articles on The Wizard of Oz

Angie Errigo, The Wizard of Oz, in: Empire, nr. 211, 2007 pp. 192-193

Didi Neidhart, Before Garland, in: Ray, nr. 12, 2009 pp. 110-111

Reviews

Patrick Peters, Goodbye yellow brick road, in: Empire, nr. 198 (December), 2005 pp. 204 (DVD review)

Ian Nathan, The Wizard of Oz, The 70th anniversary edition, in: Empire, nr. 246 (December), 2009 pp. 178-179 (DVD review)

Jörg Gerle, "Schneewitchen und die sieben Zwerge" / "The Wizard of Oz", in: Filmdienst, nr. 24, 2009 pp. 47 (DVD review)