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9780820704777 English 0820704776 As this latest venture demonstrates, the history of Milton on film has been full of ambitious visions and dazzling failures. From the earliest proto-cinematic inventions, Milton has represented the quintessential subject for increasingly spectacular visual entertainment: mechanical pantomimes and spectacles in the eighteenth century; panoramas, dioramas, musical extravaganzas, and magic lantern shows in the nineteenth century. Milton has also figured centrally in the development of the cinema over the past century, from the silent era and its turn to a technological sublime to the contemporary age of sprawling digital cinematography and Hollywood blockbusters. Milton on Film examines the two competing narratives that have tended to describe Milton's relationship to the cinema since its beginnings. In the first, Milton's imagination defines the very limits of cinematic representation, as the extraordinary ineffability of a work like Paradise Lost could only be realized in a filmic medium. In the second, though, there is something too serious or obscure in Milton's epic to translate into any popular medium, especially film. Interestingly, the volume also includes the earliest image of Paradise Lost on film, and nearly 150 other films are considered in a Miltonic context. Examples range from the mainstream to the marginal, literary period pieces to schlock horror, westerns, space odysseys, and film noir. As Brown asserts, Paradise Lost may well be the greatest film never made, but Milton continues to shape and define the contours of the cinema in unexpected and, occasionally, quite glorious ways., Building on the recent spate of scholarly activity that has accompanied the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible, this multifaceted volume delves into areas that have yet to be much explored in the realm of biblical studies. The 12 essays in The King James Bible across Borders and Centuries authored by scholars from a wide variety of academic disciplines examine the KJV both as world literature and as an important force in social, geographical, and linguistic cultures, demonstrating its tremendous influence from the Protestant Reformation to the present day. And as the volumes title suggests, The King James Bible across Borders and Centuries differs significantly from other recent discussions of the KJV by focusing attention on the ways in which this Bible operated and continues to operate to define communities across borders and across centuries. The essays are organized into three parts, each mooring its innovative claims and topics on well-grounded scholarship. The first section, Transforming, focuses on how, from its inception, the KJV has reflected and engendered transformations of religious and scholarly communities within England and throughout the Western world. In part 2, Extending, essays explore the KJV in its travels outside the geographical borders of the European archipelago of England: to its neighbor to the south, where the Spanish Inquisition sought to keep it out of the hands of Spaniards; the Americas, where it was diligently translated so that Gods Word could be brought to the Native Americans; and in the expansion of England into Australia and India. Finally, essays in the Appropriating section integrate newer fields of study, touching on areas as disparate as African American issues, Mormonism, gender, and juvenile literature. The King James Bible across Borders and Centuries captures and extends some of the most promising pathways for future consideration as the KJV enters its fifth century., These 12 essays -- authored by scholars from a wide variety of academic disciplines -- examine the King James Version of the Bible both as world literature and as an important force in social, geographical, and linguistic cultures, demonstrating its tremendous influence from the Protestant Reformation to the present day.
9780820704777 English 0820704776 As this latest venture demonstrates, the history of Milton on film has been full of ambitious visions and dazzling failures. From the earliest proto-cinematic inventions, Milton has represented the quintessential subject for increasingly spectacular visual entertainment: mechanical pantomimes and spectacles in the eighteenth century; panoramas, dioramas, musical extravaganzas, and magic lantern shows in the nineteenth century. Milton has also figured centrally in the development of the cinema over the past century, from the silent era and its turn to a technological sublime to the contemporary age of sprawling digital cinematography and Hollywood blockbusters. Milton on Film examines the two competing narratives that have tended to describe Milton's relationship to the cinema since its beginnings. In the first, Milton's imagination defines the very limits of cinematic representation, as the extraordinary ineffability of a work like Paradise Lost could only be realized in a filmic medium. In the second, though, there is something too serious or obscure in Milton's epic to translate into any popular medium, especially film. Interestingly, the volume also includes the earliest image of Paradise Lost on film, and nearly 150 other films are considered in a Miltonic context. Examples range from the mainstream to the marginal, literary period pieces to schlock horror, westerns, space odysseys, and film noir. As Brown asserts, Paradise Lost may well be the greatest film never made, but Milton continues to shape and define the contours of the cinema in unexpected and, occasionally, quite glorious ways., Building on the recent spate of scholarly activity that has accompanied the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible, this multifaceted volume delves into areas that have yet to be much explored in the realm of biblical studies. The 12 essays in The King James Bible across Borders and Centuries authored by scholars from a wide variety of academic disciplines examine the KJV both as world literature and as an important force in social, geographical, and linguistic cultures, demonstrating its tremendous influence from the Protestant Reformation to the present day. And as the volumes title suggests, The King James Bible across Borders and Centuries differs significantly from other recent discussions of the KJV by focusing attention on the ways in which this Bible operated and continues to operate to define communities across borders and across centuries. The essays are organized into three parts, each mooring its innovative claims and topics on well-grounded scholarship. The first section, Transforming, focuses on how, from its inception, the KJV has reflected and engendered transformations of religious and scholarly communities within England and throughout the Western world. In part 2, Extending, essays explore the KJV in its travels outside the geographical borders of the European archipelago of England: to its neighbor to the south, where the Spanish Inquisition sought to keep it out of the hands of Spaniards; the Americas, where it was diligently translated so that Gods Word could be brought to the Native Americans; and in the expansion of England into Australia and India. Finally, essays in the Appropriating section integrate newer fields of study, touching on areas as disparate as African American issues, Mormonism, gender, and juvenile literature. The King James Bible across Borders and Centuries captures and extends some of the most promising pathways for future consideration as the KJV enters its fifth century., These 12 essays -- authored by scholars from a wide variety of academic disciplines -- examine the King James Version of the Bible both as world literature and as an important force in social, geographical, and linguistic cultures, demonstrating its tremendous influence from the Protestant Reformation to the present day.