In 1995, Gregory Maguire published Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, a revisionist look at the land and characters of Oz.

According to the revisionist version of the Oz history chronicled in Gregory Maguire's novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, the slippers were given to Nessarose, the future Wicked Witch of the East, by her father.

Gregory Maguire, author of the revisionist Oz novels Wicked and Son of a Witch, has written that The Emerald City of Oz " is suffused with an elegiac quality " and compares its tone with that of The Last Battle, the final volume of C. S. Lewis ' Chronicles of Narnia.

* In author Gregory Maguire's Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West ( a 1995 revisionist novel based on the inhabitants of Oz ) and in the 2003 Broadway musical Wicked ( based on Maguire's novel ), the Wizard is a tyrannical ruler who uses deceit and trickery to hide his own shortcomings.

Tip makes a cameo appearance In Son of a Witch, the second volume of " The Wicked Years ", Gregory Maguire's revisionist take on Oz.

In Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novels Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and Son of a Witch, Quadling Country is described as a largely undeveloped, swampy region, with the ruddy-faced Quadlings being portrayed as artistic and sexually free.

In Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novels Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and Son of a Witch, this area is called the Vinkus, and it is revealed that " Winkie " is considered a derogatory term.

In Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novels, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and Son of a Witch, the Emerald City is a much darker place than in Baum's novels.

In Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novels Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and Son of a Witch, the Gillikin Country is simply called ' Gillikin '.

A somewhat sinister version of Tik-Tok is a minor character in Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.

In that film adaptation, as in Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and its musical adaptation Wicked, the Witch of the West is the sister of the Wicked Witch of the East, although this is neither stated nor implied in the original novel.

* Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West takes the familiar Oz story and inverts it, with the Wicked Witch ( given the name Elphaba in homage to L. Frank Baum ) as the novel's protagonist and Dorothy as a hapless child.

Lurline also appears in Wicked, Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel set in Oz ; she is sometimes called " Lurlina ".

It is a revisionist look at the land and characters of Oz from L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, its sequels, and the 1939 film adaption The Wizard of Oz.

March Laumer reversed her " death " from Ruth Plumly Thompson's book, regenerating and reforming the witch into a harmless character in his revisionist A Farewell to Oz.

In Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novels Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and Son of a Witch, " Pastorius " was the widower of Ozma the Bilious, who died from an apparently accidental poisoning, and father to Ozma Tippetarius, who was approximately the same age as Elphaba.

While not exactly a villain, Dorothy is not the hero in Gregory Maguire's revisionist 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.

In Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, she is initially called " Galinda ," and ( through her mother ) is descended from the noble clan of the Arduennas of the Upland.

The Tin Woodman is a minor character in author Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, its 2003 Broadway musical adaptation and Maguire's 2005 sequel Son of a Witch.

Ruhnama ( The Book of the Soul ), is a book written by Saparmurat Niyazov, late President for Life of Turkmenistan, combining spiritual / moral guidance, autobiography and revisionist history ; much of it is of dubious or disputed factuality and accuracy.

The evergreen Sherlock Holmes was given the first of many revisionist treatments in Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes ( 1970 ).

The Cowardly Lion is a minor character in author Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and its 2003 Broadway musical adaptation.

A mock-Victorian revisionist version of Romeo and Juliet's final scene ( with a happy ending, Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio and Paris restored to life, and Benvolio revealing that he is Paris's love, Benvolia, in disguise ) forms part of the 1980 stage-play The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

The revisionist The Last Temptation of Christ, the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, and the parody the Life of Brian were all major films of the 1970s and 1980s.

Both Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and the musical Wicked ( based on the book ), follow the model of the 1939 movie in giving the name " Glinda " to the character who grows up to become The Good Witch of the North.

In 1990, McKennitt provided the music for the National Film Board of Canada documentary The Burning Times, a feminist revisionist account of the Early Modern European witchcraft trials.

In the Historiography of the Cold War, a controversy over negationist historical revisionism exists, where numerous revisionist scholars in the West have been accused of whitewashing the crimes of Stalinism, overlooking the Katyn massacre in Poland and disregarding the validity of the Venona messages with regards to Soviet espionage in the United States.

Donati indicated that Leone was interested in a more revisionist take on the genre than his earlier works, wanting to show the Old West " like it really was.

In the West the " revisionist " historiographical school tended to take a somewhat critical view of the speech ; historian J. Arch Getty commented in 1985 that, " Khrushchev's revelations ... are almost entirely self-serving.

What they both share with the revisionist Western, includes a disdain for the business class ( cf Once Upon a Time in the West and its critique of the rail builders ), organised religion and Christianity and the so called " American Dream " and its related ethic.

Ralph Myles also reprinted Men Against the State, published a new book by Lawrence Dennis, reprinted a history of American anti-militarism by Arthur Ekirch, and brought several World War I revisionist books and a series of classic anarchist writings back into print, most notably No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority by Lysander Spooner and In Quest of Truth and Justice by Harry Elmer Barnes.

As in Gregory Maguire's revisionist novel, Glinda is characterized by her popularity and goes by the name of Galinda Upland ( who hails from the Upper Uplands ).

Brando Unzipped: A revisionist and very private look at America's greatest actor.

" From this viewpoint it can be seen that de Bernières as very much a revisionist historian, considering social history superior to that of political.

Most scholars would not credit the revisionist suggestion that Polo's unfavorable description of this advisor, though superstitious, had anything to do with his religion, especially seeing as how he depicts other followers of Islam in a very positive light.

Both traditional Jewish thought and revisionist views may look to different conceptions of the Eclipse of God, from temporary removal of the Divine countenance to inherent limitations to God.

* Iron Sky, a 2012 Finnish film in which a colony of Nazis on the Moon have been educated with a revisionist history based on a heavily edited version of The Great Dictator in which the ' Dictator ' is portrayed as a kind and benevolent leader wishing to bring peace to the planet.

In recent years, revisionist productions, including those by Mark Morris, Matthew Bourne, and Mikhail Chemiakin have appeared ; these depart radically from both the original 1892 libretto and Vainonen's revival, while Maurice Bejart's version completely discards the original plot and characters.

The " Encyclopedia of Hindi Cinema " analyzed that " he defied the image of the conventional hero in both these films and created his own version of the revisionist hero.

Political developments in Spain and Catalonia eventually led to the enshrinement of a revisionist version of how Cerdà secured official approval of his plan.

Neil Gaiman's revisionist version of The Sandman showed the somewhat Cinderella-like tyranny of Jed's guardians as genuine abusive behaviour.

In Khan's entry in Encyclopædia Britannica's " Encyclopedia of Hindi Cinema " it was stated that " he defied the image of the conventional hero in both these films and created his own version of the revisionist hero.