Oz at 75

The Wizard of Oz and the Cultural Imagination: An international and interdisicplinary conference celebrating and interrogating 75 years of the MGM Musical

[Irregular (Arts) @IrregularArts]

Tshirt campaign nearly over - please buy one by this time 2mrw - 5 to go or nobody gets one!! https://t.co/8lwFoiAMhc @ozat75 #EchoesofOz

[Oz at 75 @ozat75]

The #ozat75 conference is over. What more is there to say, other than this :
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[Irregular (Arts) @IrregularArts]

Thanks for having us at #Ozat75 we're grateful for support towards #EchoesofOz https://t.co/8lwFoiAMhc

[Claudia Funder @ClaudiaFunder]

Wizard of Oz conference was tremendous. Congratulations to @DrKFenbyHulse and the team for an amazing weekend. #Ozat75

[Dr Karen Graham @kar_took]

Still processing all of the different readings and implications from #Ozat75 Truly amazing and thought provoking conference.

[Liz Fairweather @scififairy]

@ozat75 Simply marvellous. Big thanks and congrats to @DrKFenbyHulse and the team for organising it

[Irregular (Arts) @IrregularArts]

@ozat75 thanks - you can help us to make #EchoesofOz by sharing this fundraising idea https://t.co/8lwFoiAMhc

[Ryan Bunch @ryanbunch]

Tommy Curry delves into the materiality of black life in close reading of The Wiz. #Ozat75

[Oz at 75 @ozat75]

Curry: The Wiz isn't about the wonders of the Oz, but the materialistic conditions of black people in 1970s America #Ozat75

[Oz at 75 @ozat75]

Funder: The Jitterbug dance used as manipulative #Ozat75

[Oz at 75 @ozat75]

@ozat75: Claudia Funder now talking the Jitterbug and the social context of the Lindy Hop. #Ozat75

[Oz at 75 @ozat75]

Great project by @IrregularArts that really looks at recontextualise Oz and putting it to work in Bradford #Ozat75

[Ryan Bunch @ryanbunch]

Jenny Wilson and Shanaz Gulzar share their great community-based performance work on '75 Dorothys' flash mob. #Ozat75

[Ryan Bunch @ryanbunch]

Ann-Marie Fleming: MGM advertising for Oz focused on Leo the Lion because Garland's star image not yet established. #Ozat75

[Oz at 75 @ozat75]

Boumans: WOZ as a classical exploitation film.

[Oz at 75 @ozat75]

Boumans: Munchkin actors not credited apart from a reference to 'the singing midgets as The Munchkins' #Ozat75

[Oz at 75 @ozat75]

Etienne Boumans discussing munchkins and contemporary (derogatory) understandings of short statured people. #Ozat75

[Liz Fairweather @scififairy]

Entertaining paper from Jo George on how to direct a dog in film, including changing him to a costumed human (1902) #toto #Ozat75

[Liz Fairweather @scififairy]

Brown| 'The key to the numinousity of an object is you' #Ozat75