The Byronic Hero in Film, Fiction, and Television - Softcover

Stein, Atara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809329387 ISBN 13: 9780809329380

Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009

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Atara Stein's intelligent and, dare I say, entertaining work sheds new light on the dark hero's journey from nineteenth-century literature to twenty-first-century pop culture mythology. The Byronic Hero in Film, Fiction, and Television shows us that heroes don't die, they morph right along with the culture they serve. - David Greenwalt, co-creator of Angel "Stein's wide-ranging, observant, accessible study offers much of interest to scholars and fans of both high and low culture and helps to bridge the chasm between them in the process." - David Lavery, co-editor of Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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This title tracks the champion of action films, sci-fi TV, vampire novels, and neo-Gothic comics. ""The Byronic Hero in Film, Fiction, and Television"" bridges nineteenth- and twentieth-century studies in pursuit of an ambitious, antisocial, arrogant, and aggressively individualistic mode of hero from his inception in Byron's ""Manfred"", ""Childe Harold"", and ""Cain"", through his incarnations as the protagonists of Westerns, action films, space odysseys, vampire novels, neo-Gothic comics, and sci-fi television. Such a hero exhibits supernatural abilities, adherence to a personal moral code, ineptitude at human interaction (muddled even further by self-absorbed egotism), and an ingrained defiance of oppressive authority. He is typically an outlaw, most certainly an outcast or outsider, and more often than not, he is a he. Given his superhuman status, this hero offers no potential for sympathetic identification from his audience. At best, he provides an outlet for vicarious expressions of power and independence. Tracing the influence of Lord Byron's ""Manfred"" as outcast hero on a pantheon of his contemporary progenies - including characters from ""Pale Rider"", ""Unforgiven"", ""The Terminator"", ""Alien"", ""The Crow"", ""Sandman"", ""Star Trek: The Next Generation"", and ""Angel"" - Atara Stein tempers her academic acumen with the insights of a devoted aficionado in this first comprehensive study of the Romantic hero type and his modern kindred.

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• Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0809329387
• ISBN 13: 9780809329380
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272