Beowulf on Film
Subtitle: Adaptations and Variations
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780786463381
Subjects: Film adaptations
Description: "This book explores the growing list of films based on or inspired by the Old English epic poem Beowulf, and thus joins the ongoing consideration of film medievalism. The films measure the pulse of how we are processing inherited notions of heroism in contemporary media, and they teach us more about our own times"--