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Author:   Nickolas Haydock ,  E.L. Risden
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.308kg
ISBN:  

9780786463381

ISBN 10:   0786463384
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   01 October 2013
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction—A Freud Complex and the Problem of Beowulf in Film delete(E.L. Risden)      1—Film Theory, the Sister Arts Tradition and the Cinematic Beowulf delete(Nickolas Haydock) 2—The Cinematic Commoditization of Beowulf: The Serial Fetishizing of a Hero delete(E.L. Risden) 3—Making Sacrifices delete(Nickolas Haydock) 4—The Hero, the Mad Male Id and a Feminist Beowulf: The Sexualizing of an Epic delete(E.L. Risden) 5—O Dragon, Where Art Thou? “Othering” in Beowulf Films delete(E.L. Risden) 6—Meat Puzzles: Beowulf and the Horror Film delete(Nickolas Haydock) 7—Our Man Beowulf: Bowra, Ker and the Contemporary Struggle with Heroism delete(E.L. Risden) Conclusion—The Postmodern Beowulf delete(Nickolas Haydock) Chapter Notes Works Cited Index

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recommended --<i>Bookgasm</i>; intriguing --<i>ProtoView</i>; recommend this highly --<i>Destructive Music</i>.

recommended --Bookgasm; intriguing --ProtoView; recommend this highly --Destructive Music.

Author Information

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, emeritus professor of English at St. Norbert College, lives in De Pere, Wisconsin, where he continues to write literary and movie scholarship, speculative fiction, and occasional poetry.

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