The Hobbit

The Hobbit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit_(film_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit:_An_Unexpected_Journey

Institutions

Peter Jackson - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit_(film_series)
King Kong, The Lovely Bones - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jackson
Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Zane Weiner, Carolynne Cunningham - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit_(film_series)
The Frighteners, Heavenly Creatures - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jackson#Filmography
Inception, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros.
$303,003,568 - http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=hobbit.htm

Audience

http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/77486/should-i-watch-the-hobbit-trilogy-before-the-lotr-trilogy
PG-13 for extended sequences of intense fantasy action violence, and frightening images. - http://parentpreviews.com/movie-reviews/film-info/hobbit-an-unexpected-journey12, moderate violence - http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/hobbit-unexpected-journey-2012-2 
8.0 - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903624/
Charming, spectacular, technically audacious… in short, everything you expect from a Peter Jackson movie. A feeling of familiarity does take hold in places, but this is an epically entertaining first course - http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey
Genre and Conventions

12A, 169 min, Adventure, Fantasy - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903624/

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary plot element, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic and magical creatures are common. Fantasy is generally distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of scientific and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three, all of which are subgenres of speculative fiction. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FantasyTime Bandits, In a Better World - http://filmschoolrejects.com/features/13-movies-to-watch-after-youve-seen-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug.php

Representation

In The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit in comfortable middle age at 50 years old, was hired in spite of himself as a "burglar" by the wizard Gandalf and 13 Dwarves led by their king Thorin Oakenshield on a quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain and its treasure from the dragon Smaug. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilbo_Baggins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-earth

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