Beowulf on Film: Adaptations and Variations - Softcover

Haydock, Nickolas; Risden, E. L.

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

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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

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Verlag
McFarland
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0786463384
ISBN 13 
9780786463381
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
220
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