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Title:

Chaucer on screen : absence, presence, and adapting the Canterbury tales / edited by Kathleen Coyne Kelly & Tison Pugh ; foreword by Terry Jones.

Publisher:

The Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400.--Canterbury tales--Film adaptations.
Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400.--Canterbury tales--Television adaptations.
Tales, Medieval--History and criticism.

Other Authors:

Kelly, Kathleen Coyne, editor.
Pugh, Tison, editor.
Jones, Terry, 1942- writer of foreword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 / Sian 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.

Series:

Interventions: new studies in medieval culture

ISBN:

0814213170
9780814213179

OCLC:

(OCoLC)945948419

LCCN:

2016031759

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)