Beowulf on Film: Adaptations and Variations - Brossura

Haydock, Nickolas; Risden, E. L.

 
9780786463381: Beowulf on Film: Adaptations and Variations

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"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. The films measure the pulse of how we are processing inherited notions of heroism in contemporary media, and they teach us more about our own times"--

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Nickolas Haydock is a professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez. In addition to movie medievalism and film, he also writes about medieval Scots literature. E.L. Risden is a professor of English at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin. He has published books and essays on medieval and Renaissance studies as well as poetry and fiction.

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