The Wider Worlds of Jim Henson: Essays on His Work and by Jennifer C. Garlen,Anissa M. Graham

March 3, 2017 by admin

By Jennifer C. Garlen,Anissa M. Graham

Jim Henson was once the inventive strength at the back of a major catalog of tv sequence, movies, specials, and different productions, even excepting the Muppets. This choice of essays delves into the remainder of Henson’s physique of labor, together with tasks built in the course of his lifetime and people who symbolize his legacy. lined listed here are Fraggle Rock, The darkish Crystal, Labyrinth, The Jim Henson Hour, Dinosaurs, Farscape, and extra. Henson’s impression on either audiences and later productions is still palpable on monitors huge and small, as this assortment attests.

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