Beowulf on film : adaptations and variations /
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| Language: | English |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2013]
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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.