Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Political interpretations of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" include treatments of the modern fairy tale (written by L. Frank Baum and first published in 1900) as an allegory or metaphor for the political, economic, and social events of America in the 1890s. Scholars have examined four quite different versions of Oz: the novel of 1900, the Broadway play of 1901, the Hollywood film of 1939, and the numerous follow-up Oz novels written after 1900 by Baum and others. The political interpretations focus on the first three, and emphasize the close relationship between
The Steam Engines of Oz The Steam Engines of Oz The Steam Engines of Oz is a 2018 Canadian animated film directed and written by Sean Patrick O'Reilly. The screenplay is based on the graphic novel of the same name by Erik Hendrix. It features William Shatner, Ron Perlman, Julianne Hough, Ashleigh Ball, and Scott McNeil. Arcana Studios announced that they will be producing a "steampunked re-imagining" of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It is a co-production animated feature with 3Doubles Productions and Arcana Studio. A hundred years after the events that occurred in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and after the defeat of the