Beowulf on Film: Adaptations and Variations - Tapa blanda

Risden, E L; Risden, E. L.; Haydock, Nickolas

 
9780786463381: Beowulf on Film: Adaptations and Variations
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ISBN 10: 0786463384 ISBN 13: 9780786463381
Editorial: McFarland, 2013

Sinopsis

Why did the most read work in English literature go without cinematic adaptation for so long? And why did five major film treatments appear between 1999 and 2008? This book explores the growing number of films based on the Old English epic poem Beowulf, and furthers the ongoing consideration of filmic medievalism. Will the powerful influence of cinema affect the future reception of this great cultural, linguistic and inherently visual work? The films inevitably sway away from not only the story but also from the themes and concerns of the original to those more interesting to the filmmakers--or responsive to the zeitgeist. They measure the pulse of our inherited notions of heroism and teach us more about our own times than about the epic from which they derive.

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Acerca de los autores

Nickolas Haydock is a professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez. In addition to movie medievalism and film, he also writes about medieval Scots literature.

E.L. Risden, emeritus professor of English at St. Norbert College, lives in De Pere, Wisconsin, where he continues to write literary and movie scholarship, speculative fiction, and occasional poetry.

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Editorial
McFarland
Año de publicación
2013
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0786463384
ISBN 13 
9780786463381
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Número de páginas
220
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