Chaucerian History and Cinematic Perversions in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's "A Canterbury Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Pugh, Tison.
Chaucerian History and Cinematic Perversions in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's "A Canterbury Tale."
- Published
- Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 111-29.
- Description
- Analyzes the "experiential vision of the past" depicted in Powell and Pressburger's movie "A Canterbury Tale," exploring the "spectral inspiration" of Chaucer, the film's propaganda value, its "metacinematic" ironies, and its "perversions" of the film medium alongside the perversions of the Glue Man who assaults women in the plot. Ultimately, the movie exposes the "false binary of perversion and sanctity," particularly as linked to attitudes toward the past.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer on Screen.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Recordings and Films
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Canterbury Tales--General