Bøker av Nickolas Haydock

Offers a theoretical introduction to the portrayal of medievalism in popular film. This work introduces the field of medieval film studies, viewed through the lenses of Lacanian psychoanalysis and the Deleuzian philosophy of the time-image.

Why did the most read work in English literature go without cinematic adaptation for so long? And why, after so much neglect, did five major film adaptations of the poem appear between 1999 and 2008? This book explores the growing list of films based on or inspired by the Old English epic poem Beowulf, and joins the ongoing consideration of film medievalism.