Category: Tarzan
Let’s Hear it for Tarzan of the Apes, (the 1918 Movie) On Its Centennial Today
The folks at ERB Inc. are celebration, as well they should, because one hundred years ago today, the 1918 movie Tarzan of the Apes starring Elmo Lincoln and Enid Markey, […]
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ERB Inc. Releases Edgar Rice Burroughs The Bibliography by Robert B. Zeuschner
Tarzana, CA | August 18, 2016: Edgar Rice Burroughs Incorporated today announced the release of the long-awaited definitive bibliography of the Master of Adventure by longtime Burroughs scholar Dr. Robert […]
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Day 3 — Third Round of Pix The 2016 Dum Dum in Morris, Illinois
by Cathy Wilbanks Okay, here is the final installment of pics from the last wonderful day of Dum Dum 2016. Thanks to everyone for making it a fantastic experience. Wish […]
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Day 2 Pix from 2016 Dum Dum
by Cathy Wilbanks DAY 2 PIX Jim Thompson with headgear (with an all-seeing eye in the middle) by Bob Hibbard Dignity! Bill Wagner Jim Thompson and Mike Conran […]
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Cathy Wilbanks Reports: ERB Fans Converge on the the Annual ERB Dum Dum Gathering in Morris, Illinois
by Cathy Wilbanks Hi Everybody — Dum Dum 2016 is off and running at the Quality Inn in Morris, Illinois. Here is the schedule, followed by Huckster Room Pics. […]
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Edgar Rice Burroughs, Author of Tarzan, Offers a Hilarious Bullet Point List of his Failures
Edgar Rice Burroughs was famously “selling pencil sharpeners” at the time he wrote his first novel. He equally famously was later quoted: “I write to escape. To escape poverty.” In […]
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Africa of the Mind 1912: The Books That Shaped Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes
I’ve been a little quiet lately, in part because I’ve been doing some research on the “Africa of the mind” that Edgar Rice Burroughs had access to as he was […]
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Edgar Rice Burroughs, Creator of Tarzan, Was Not The Racist Hack His Critics Claim. Here’s Proof.
An unfortunate byproduct of much of the racially focused commentary triggered by the release of David Yates’ Legend of Tarzan is the wholesale trashing of the reputation of one of the […]
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Telegraph: Q: Was Edgar Rice Burroughs a Xenophobic Hack or Master Storyteller? A: Master Storyteller, mostly
But the most striking features of the work – the encapsulated tensions in Tarzan between civilisation and the natural world, the freewheeling Martian imagination that gave birth to so many […]
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Must-read: Sci-Fi Author Steven Barnes Offers Analysis of Legend of Tarzan
Note: “Must-read” is basically a note to myself, as it will not please everyone — but I feel it is fair and insightful, and is is among the very best cultural […]
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New Orleans Times Picayune: The Legend of Tarzan In Louisiana (featuring Al Bohl)
Al Bohl is a great friend of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and all of the ERB fan groups. His documentary Tarzan, Lord of the Louisiana Jungle, which he produced with […]
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MoviePilot: Getting to know George Washington Williams, Samuel Jack’s Real-life Character
MoviePilot | From the get-go, we deduced that The Legend of Tarzan will be unlike its predecessors; nor will it simply be just an update to the classics. It’s nearly the […]
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Cinemablend Breaks Down How Legend of Tarzan Differs From the Books
via Cinemablend | by Dirk Libby The following contains spoilers for The Legend of Tarzan, as well as the books the film is based on. First published in 1912, Tarzan is one […]
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A Response to The Hollywood Reporter: “Why the Tarzan Myth No Longer Works”
Jeff Esty, Vartan Gregorian Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, writing in the Hollywood Reporter, makes the case that while Jungle Book can and did shed the racist […]
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Comic Book Resources: “Legend of Tarzan, the Saturday Matinee I’ve Been Wanting Forever” (Must Read)
Tbere’s a wonderful, lengthy post by Greg Hatcher and Comic Book Resources that any Edgar Rice Burroughs fan is going to love. It takes the reader through Hatcher’s first introduction […]
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As Legend of Tarzan Opens, Greystoke Director Hugh Hudson Looks Back on his 1984 take on Tarzan
Hollywood Reporter | The Secrets Behind That Other Tarzan Movie — The One That Earned a Dog a Screenwriting Oscar Nomination Writer Robert Towne so hated the finished ‘Greystoke: The […]
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Hollywood Reporter: The Trouble With the Tarzan Characters
Graeme McMillian has in interesting article in The Hollywood Reporter in which he puts forward the thesis that “troubling” aspects of the Tarzan story are difficult to escape or successfully […]
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AP: Tarzan, Revised — New Film Swings Beyond Troubled Past
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tarzan may be among America’s classic fictional characters, but he’s not beyond reproach. Like so many well-worn tales, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan was borne of a […]
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Legend of Tarzan: Six Minutes of Behind the Scenes
WB Studios has distributed six minutes of B-Roll behind the scenes footage for broadcasters to use in putting together their own TV and web stories about Legend of Tarzan. Here […]
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New High Rez Legend of Tarzan Images
Here is a gallery of mostly new high-resolution Legend of Tarzan images released by Warner Bros. Studios over the last two days.
