Chaucer on screen : absence, presence, and adapting the Canterbury tales

Chaucer on screen : absence, presence, and adapting the Canterbury tales /

"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'...

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Other Authors: Kelly, Kathleen Coyne (Editor), Pugh, Tison (Editor), Jones, Terry, 1942-2020 (Author of introduction, etc.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2016]
Series:Interventions: new studies in medieval culture.
Subjects:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400. > Canterbury tales > Film adaptations.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400. > Canterbury tales > Television adaptations.
Canterbury tales (Chaucer, Geoffrey)
Tales, Medieval > History and criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Tales, Medieval
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Film adaptations
Film criticism
Literary criticism
Television adaptations
Television criticism and reviews
Film criticism.
Television criticism and reviews.
Literary criticism.
Critiques cinématographiques.
Critiques littéraires.
Critiques d'émissions télévisées.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Terry Jones
  • Introduction : Chaucer on screen / Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh
  • Part I. Theorizing absence. Naked yet invisible: filming Chaucer's narrator / Elizabeth Scala
  • "The play's the thing": the cinematic fortunes of Chaucer and Shakespeare / Susan Aronstein and Peter Parolin
  • Chaucer, film, and the desert of the real; or, why Geoffrey Chaucer will never be Jane Austen / Larry Scanlon
  • Profit, politics, and prurience; or, why Chaucer is bad box office / Kathleen Forni
  • Part II. Lost and found. Chaucer and the moving image in pre-world War II America / Lynn Arner
  • Lost Chaucer : Natalie Wood's "The deadly riddle" and the golden age of American television / Candace Barrington
  • Part III. Presence. Chaucerian history and cinematic perversions in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's A Canterbury tale / Tison Pugh
  • Idols of the marketplace : Chaucer/Pasolini / Kathryn L. Lynch
  • "Sorry, Chaucer" : mixed feelings and Hyapatia Lee's Ribald tales of Canterbury / George Shuffelton
  • The naked truth : Chaucerian spectacle in Brian Helgeland's A knight's tale / Siân Echard
  • Part IV. The BBC Canterbury tales (2003). Putting the second first : the BBC "Miller's tale" / Steve Ellis
  • Midlife sex and the BBC "Wife of bath" / Sarah Stanbury
  • Serving time : the BBC "Knight's tale" in the prison-house of free adaptation / Louise D'Arcens
  • The color of money : the BBC "Sea captain's tale" / Kathleen Coyne Kelly
  • Sex, plague, and resonance : reflections on the BBC "Pardoner's tale" / Arthur Bahr
  • Time, memory, and desire in the BBC "Man of law's tale" / Kathleen Davis
  • Part V. Absent presence. Marketing Chaucer : mad men and the wife of Bath / Laurie Finke and Martin B. Shichtman.

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