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Beowulf on Film

Nickolas Haydock, E. L. Risden
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      Why did the most read work in English literature go without cinematic adaptation for so long? And why, after so much neglect, did five major film adaptations of the poem appear between 1999 and 2008? This book explores the growing list of films based on or inspired by the Old English epic poem Beowulf, and thus joins the ongoing consideration of film medievalism. If the films lead audiences back to the original, the will discover a work of great cultural, linguistic, and inherent visual power - but will the pervasive influence of cinema affect the future reception of Beowulf? The films derived from it constitute an interesting if yet incomplete body of variants with their own specific social commentary: they inevitably sway not only from the story, but also from the themes and concerns of the original to those more interesting to the filmmakers. The films under consideration here, like all others, respond to the zeitgeist: they measure the pulse of how we are processing inherited notions of heroism in contemporary media, and they teach us more about our own times than about the poem from which they derive.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Nickolas Haydock, E. L. Risden EAN: 9780786463381 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 315 g HEIGHT: 226 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: McFarland & Co Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2013-09-17 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Film: styles and genres

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      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. E. L. Risden is an associate professor of English at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin, USA. He has published books and essays on medieval and Renaissance studies as well as poetry and fiction.
      Why did the most read work in English literature go without cinematic adaptation for so long? And why, after so much neglect, did five major film adaptations of the poem appear between 1999 and 2008? This book explores the growing list of films based on or inspired by the Old English epic poem Beowulf, and thus joins the ongoing consideration of film medievalism. If the films lead audiences back to the original, the will discover a work of great cultural, linguistic, and inherent visual power - but will the pervasive influence of cinema affect the future reception of Beowulf? The films derived from it constitute an interesting if yet incomplete body of variants with their own specific social commentary: they inevitably sway not only from the story, but also from the themes and concerns of the original to those more interesting to the filmmakers. The films under consideration here, like all others, respond to the zeitgeist: they measure the pulse of how we are processing inherited notions of heroism in contemporary media, and they teach us more about our own times than about the poem from which they derive.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Nickolas Haydock, E. L. Risden EAN: 9780786463381 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 315 g HEIGHT: 226 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: McFarland & Co Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2013-09-17 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Film: styles and genres

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      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. E. L. Risden is an associate professor of English at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin, USA. He has published books and essays on medieval and Renaissance studies as well as poetry and fiction.

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