TY - BOOK AU - Brown,Eric C. TI - Milton on Film T2 - Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies SN - 9780271093512 U1 - 821/.4 23 PY - 2022///] CY - University Park, PA : PB - Penn State University Press, KW - English literature KW - History and criticism KW - Film adaptations KW - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism KW - bisacsh N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271093512?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271093512 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780271093512/original ER -