Harry Potter Dissected (See the videos)

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The NY Times Film critics A.O.Scott and Manohla Dargis take a look at how Harry Potter has developed, the advancement of special efx, the aging of its characters & its state of the art casting in 4 videos. You can watch their video analysis right HERE.

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The LA Times takes a look at Harry Potter's liteary forbearers:

"And while they've been treated with condescension by some highbrow critics — Potter has already produced reams of academic criticism and seems likely to generate vastly more — the books provide things that have become harder to find in recent novels for adults, some say. The winking allusions to earlier books, from C.S. Lewis' Narnia series to "The Wind in the Willows," are not the only way these novels are grounded in literary history.

One of their most enthusiastic critical champions is Lee Siegel, who writes about books and culture for the New Republic and other magazines. Siegel calls the books throwbacks to a 19th century psychological realism. "For the most part, novelists have lost the ability to do that," he said in a telephone interview. "They've lost the psychology of the realist novel."

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