Defying Tyranny
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21320596 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ramzi Fawaz (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 61-74 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Film Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-1386 • E-ISSN: 1533-8630 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/fq.2025.78.4.61 |
| OpenAlex | W4411084129 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This essay argues that the popularity of the recent blockbuster film adaptation of Gregory Maguire’s novel Wicked lies in the film’s sustained investigation of people’s painful and self-destructive need to seek approval from false sources of authority. By placing the psycho-social rivalry of two talented but flawed young aspiring sorceresses at its center, the movie argues that genuinely solidarity between them is fundamentally undermined by their individual desires to be seen, recognized, deemed popular or talented by figures of illegitimate authority like the corrupt Wizard of Oz
Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |