Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the Canterbury Tales - Couverture rigide

Kelly, Kathleen Coyne; Pugh, Tison

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0814213170 ISBN 13 : 9780814213179

Editeur : Ohio State University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Unlike William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and other great authors who have enjoyed continued success in Hollywood, Geoffrey Chaucer has largely been shunted to the margins of the cinematic world. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the Canterbury Tales, edited by Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, investigates the various translations of Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales to film and television, tracing out how the legacies of the great fourteenth-century English poet have been revisited and reinterpreted through visual media. Contributors to this volume address the question of why Chaucer is so rarely adapted to the screen, and then turn to the occasional, often awkward, attempts to adapt his narratives, including such works as Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's lyrical A Canterbury Tale (1944), Pier Paolo Pasolini's still-controversial I racconti di Canterbury (1972), Bud Lee's soft-core The Ribald Tales of Canterbury (1985), Brian Helgeland's A Knight's Tale (2001), and BBC television productions, among others. Chaucer on Screen aims to rethink some of the premises of adaptation studies and to erase the ideological lines between textual sources and visual reimaginings in the certainty that many pleasures, scholarly and otherwise, can found in multiple media across disparate eras.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kathleen Coyne Kelly is Professor of English at Northeastern University. Tison Pugh is Professor of English at the University of Central Florida.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ohio State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0814213170
• ISBN 13: 9780814213179
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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