SSC Film Studies

This article was written by Jyotsna Kapur for Jump cut and is a review on contemporary media. the article is about Harry Potter and the commercialisation of children's culture. 

This article claims that instead of returning to the utopians idea in children's literature or film Jk Rowling instead is teaching an excellent lesson about the limits of fantasy. 

the article answers the following question whether the idea of magic is still relevant in todays society  "Just when it seemed that magic had become passé even in its last home, i.e., children’s culture, along came J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. "(Chris Columbus, 2001).^[2]