‘Toto, I Think We’re in Oz Again’ (and Again and Again): Remakes and Popular Seriality

Abstract

You know the story—because it has been told many times. A little girl, perhaps nine years old, an orphan, lives with her aunt and uncle on a desolate, gray farm in desolate, gray Kansas. It is America’s least fantastic place but it serves as the point of departure for one of America’s most fantastic tales. A tornado destroys the farm and carries the little girl into a colorful land, which is the exact opposite of Kansas. There, far away from home, without the protection of parents or grown-ups, she makes new friends and learns something about herself.

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