Beowulf on film : adaptations and variations /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haydock, Nickolas
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Risden, Edward L., 1957-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2013]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction-a Freud complex and the problem of Beowulf in film / E.L. Risden
  • Film theory, the sister arts tradition and the cinematic Beowulf / Nickolas Haydock
  • The cinematic commoditization of Beowulf: The serial fetishizing of a hero / E.L. Risden
  • Making sacrifices / Nickolas Haydock
  • The hero, the mad male Id, and a feminist Beowulf: the sexualizing of an Epic / E.L. Risden
  • Dragon, where art thou? "othering" in Beowulf films / E.L. Risden
  • Meat puzzles: Beowulf and the horror film / Nickolas Haydock
  • Our man Beowulf: Bowra, Ker, and the contemporary struggle with heroism / E.L. Risden
  • Conclusion-the postmodern Beowulf / Nickolas Haydock.