{"product_id":"9780814213179","title":"Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the Canterbury Tales","description":"\u003cbr\u003eUnlike William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and other great authors who have enjoyed continued success in Hollywood, Geoffrey Chaucer has largely been shunted to the margins of the cinematic world.\u003ci\u003e Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the Canterbury Tales, \u003c\/i\u003eedited by Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, investigates the various translations of Chaucer and the \u003ci\u003eCanterbury Tales \u003c\/i\u003eto film and television, tracing out how the legacies of the great fourteenth-century English poet have been revisited and reinterpreted through visual media. Contributors to this volume address the question of why Chaucer is so rarely adapted to the screen, and then turn to the occasional, often awkward, attempts to adapt his narratives, including such works as Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s lyrical\u003ci\u003e A Canterbury Tale \u003c\/i\u003e(1944), Pier Paolo Pasolini’s still-controversial\u003ci\u003e I racconti di Canterbury (\u003c\/i\u003e1972), Bud Lee’s soft-core\u003ci\u003e The Ribald Tales of Canterbury \u003c\/i\u003e(1985), Brian Helgeland’s\u003ci\u003e A Knight’s Tale (2001), \u003c\/i\u003eand BBC television productions, among others\u003ci\u003e. Chaucer on Screen \u003c\/i\u003eaims to rethink some of the premises of adaptation studies and to erase the ideological lines between textual sources and visual reimaginings in the certainty that many pleasures, scholarly and otherwise, can found in multiple media across disparate eras.","brand":"Ohio State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011667378416,"sku":"9780814213179","price":94.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780814213179_p0.jpg?v=1763744014","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814213179","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}