An all-new adventure down the yellow brick road.
In our latest Single Serving Selection, we return to the Emerald City and dig into some nostalgic childhood nightmare fuel with librarian and friend of the show, Kit Laika. This month’s topic is Disney’s weird and often terrifying continuation/quasi-sequel to the 1939 MGM classic: Return to Oz.
Dorothy Gale finds herself back in the Land Oz, after being rescued from a mental hospital by a mysterious girl. She finds the yellow brick road is crumbling, the Emerald City is in ruins, and its people turned to stone. Now, with a new group of strange companions, Dorothy must defeat both the villainous Nome King and the evil witch Mombi, rescue the Scarecrow, and restore an exiled princess to the throne.
Because all of the best children’s movies have body horror in them.
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Kit: it’s Art Nouveau.
Indeed, though I didn’t remember it while recording. As my girlfriend Piper says, Nouveau is elvish, Deco is dwarvish.
That’s a good way to describe it; hats off to Piper.
Otherwise, I *love* Art Nouveau – in book and magazine illustrations especially, but also in the visual and applied arts and architecture.