Milton on Film /
Brown, Eric C.
Milton on Film / Eric C. Brown. - 1 online resource (431 p.) - Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Milton and the Staging of Spectacle -- 2. Pre-Cinematic Entertainment -- 3. Early Cinema and the Cinematic Sublime -- 4. The Ambivalence of the Miltonic Film -- 5. Winged Warriors and the War in Heaven -- 6. “All Hell Broke Loose”: The Horror Film -- Conclusion: Blockbuster Paradise Lost -- Notes -- Filmography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In January 2012, shooting was set to begin in Sydney, Australia, on the Hollywood-backed production of Milton’s Paradise Lost, with Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper cast as Satan. Yet just two weeks before the start of production, Legendary Pictures delayed the project, reportedly due to budgetary concerns, and soon the company had suspended the film indefinitely. Milton scholar Eric C. Brown, who was then serving as a script consultant for the studio, sees his experience with that project as part of a long and perplexing story of Milton on film. Indeed, as Brown details in this comprehensive study, Milton’s place in the popular imagination—and his extensive influence upon the cinema, in particular—has been both pervasive and persistent.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780271093512
10.1515/9780271093512 doi
English literature--History and criticism.
Film adaptations--History and criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.
821/.4
Milton on Film / Eric C. Brown. - 1 online resource (431 p.) - Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Milton and the Staging of Spectacle -- 2. Pre-Cinematic Entertainment -- 3. Early Cinema and the Cinematic Sublime -- 4. The Ambivalence of the Miltonic Film -- 5. Winged Warriors and the War in Heaven -- 6. “All Hell Broke Loose”: The Horror Film -- Conclusion: Blockbuster Paradise Lost -- Notes -- Filmography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In January 2012, shooting was set to begin in Sydney, Australia, on the Hollywood-backed production of Milton’s Paradise Lost, with Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper cast as Satan. Yet just two weeks before the start of production, Legendary Pictures delayed the project, reportedly due to budgetary concerns, and soon the company had suspended the film indefinitely. Milton scholar Eric C. Brown, who was then serving as a script consultant for the studio, sees his experience with that project as part of a long and perplexing story of Milton on film. Indeed, as Brown details in this comprehensive study, Milton’s place in the popular imagination—and his extensive influence upon the cinema, in particular—has been both pervasive and persistent.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780271093512
10.1515/9780271093512 doi
English literature--History and criticism.
Film adaptations--History and criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.
821/.4