Samuel J. Umland, Rebecca A. Umland

The Use of Arthurian Legend in Hollywood Film (eBook, PDF)

From Connecticut Yankees to Fisher Kings

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book to examine the various uses of the Arthurian legend in Hollywood film, covering films from the 1920s to the present. The authors use five representational categories: intertextual collage (or cult film); melodrama, which focuses on the love triangle; conservative propaganda, pervasive during the Cold War; the Hollywood epic; and the postmodern quest, which commonly employs the grail portion of the legend. Arguing that filmmakers rely on the audience's rudimentary familiarity with the legend, the authors show that only certain features of the legend are activated at any particular time. This fascinating study shows us how the legend has been adapted and how through the popular medium of Hollywood films, the Arthurian legend has survived and flourished.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 1996
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313031694
• Artikelnr.: 37811485

Autorenporträt

SAMUEL J. UMLAND is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. He was educated at schools in Kansas and Nebraska, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He is the author of numerous articles on film, film theory, and the teaching of literature, and has written four unproduced screenplays.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface The Mythopoeic Nature of the Arthurian Legend and Its Methods of
Transmission The Arthurian Legend as Intertextual Collage The Arthurian
Legend as 1950s Hollywood Melodrama The Arthurian Legend as Forms of
Propaganda The Arthurian Legend as Hollywood Epic: John Boorman's Excalibur
The Arthurian Legend as Postmodern Quest Filmography Bibliography Index