The Byronic Hero in Film, Fiction, and Television - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Byronic Hero in Film, Fiction, and Television write by Atara Stein. This book was released on 2009-06-30. The Byronic Hero in Film, Fiction, and Television available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Byronic Hero in Film, Fiction, and Television bridges nineteenth- and twentieth-century studies in pursuit of an ambitious, antisocial, arrogant, and aggressively individualistic mode of hero from his inception in Byron’s Manfred, Childe Harold, and Cain, through his incarnations as the protagonists of Westerns, action films, space odysseys, vampire novels, neo-Gothic comics, and sci-fi television. Such a hero exhibits supernatural abilities, adherence to a personal moral code, ineptitude at human interaction (muddled even further by self-absorbed egotism), and an ingrained defiance of oppressive authority. He is typically an outlaw, most certainly an outcast or outsider, and more often than not, he is a he. Given his superhuman status, this hero offers no potential for sympathetic identification from his audience. At best, he provides an outlet for vicarious expressions of power and independence. While audiences may not seek to emulate the Byronic hero, Stein notes that he desires to emulate them; recent texts plot to “rehumanize” the hero or to voice through him approbation and admiration of ordinary human values and experiences. Tracing the influence of Lord Byron’s Manfred as outcast hero on a pantheon of his contemporary progenies—including characters from Pale Rider, Unforgiven, The Terminator, Alien, The Crow, Sandman, Star Trek: The Next Generation,and Angel—Atara Stein tempers her academic acumen with the insights of a devoted aficionado in this first comprehensive study of the Romantic hero type and his modern kindred. Atara Stein was a professor of English at California State University, Fullerton. Her articles on the development of the Byronic hero have appeared in Popular Culture Review, Romantic Circles Praxis Series, Genders, and Philological Quarterly.
Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing and Screen Adaptation
Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing and Screen Adaptation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing and Screen Adaptation write by Sarah Wootton. This book was released on 2017-01-26. Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing and Screen Adaptation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing and Screen Adaptation charts a new chapter in the changing fortunes of a unique cultural phenomenon. This book examines the afterlives of the Byronic hero through the work of nineteenth-century women writers and screen adaptations of their fiction. It is a timely reassessment of Byron's enduring legacy during the nineteenth century and beyond, focusing on the charged and unstable literary dialogues between Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and a Romantic icon whose presence takes centre stage in recent screen adaptations of their most celebrated novels. The broad interdisciplinary lens employed in this book concentrates on the conflicted rewritings of Byron's poetry, his 'heroic' protagonists, and the cult of Byronism in nineteenth-century novels from Pride and Prejudice to Middlemarch, and extends outwards to the reappearance of Byronic heroes on film and in television series over the last two decades.
American Science Fiction Film and Television
American Science Fiction Film and Television - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Science Fiction Film and Television write by Lincoln Geraghty. This book was released on 2009-10-01. American Science Fiction Film and Television available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. American Science Fiction Film and Television presents a critical history of late 20th Century SF together with an analysis of the cultural and thematic concerns of this popular genre. Science fiction film and television were initially inspired by the classic literature of HG Wells and Jules Verne. The potential and fears born with the Atomic age fuelled the popularity of the genre, upping the stakes for both technology and apocalypse. From the Cold War through to America's current War on Terror, science fiction has proved a subtle vehicle for the hopes, fears and preoccupations of a nation at war. The definitive introduction to American science fiction, this is also the first study to analyse SF across both film and TV. Throughout, the discussion is illustrated with critical case studies of key films and television series, including The Day the Earth Stood Still, Planet of the Apes, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The X-Files, and Battlestar Galactica.
The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television
The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television write by . This book was released on 2015-10-07. The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comprehensive bibliography covers writings about vampires and related creatures from the 19th century to the present. More than 6,000 entries document the vampire's penetration of Western culture, from scholarly discourse, to popular culture, politics and cook books. Sections by topic list works covering various aspects, including general sources, folklore and history, vampires in literature, music and art, metaphorical vampires and the contemporary vampire community. Vampires from film and television--from Bela Lugosi's Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood and the Twilight Saga--are well represented.
Postmodern Pirates
Postmodern Pirates - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Postmodern Pirates write by Susanne Zhanial. This book was released on 2019-12-16. Postmodern Pirates available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Postmodern Pirates offers a comprehensive analysis of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean series and the pirate motif in British literature and Hollywood movies through the lens of postmodern film theories.
