Milton on Film / / Eric C. Brown.
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 conce...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2022] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (431 p.) |
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Other title: | 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 |
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Summary: | 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780271093512 9783110745252 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9780271093512?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Eric C. Brown. |