Profit, Politics, and Prurience; or, Why is Chaucer Bad Box Office.
- Author / Editor
- Forni, Kathleen.
Profit, Politics, and Prurience; or, Why is Chaucer Bad Box Office.
- 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. 56-66.
- Description
- Posits that Chaucer's box-office appeal is limited in the U.S. by his "relatively low cultural profile," his association with "British linguistic and literary nationalism," and the "paradoxical stigma" of being both too high-brow and too bawdy. Comments on Pier Paolo Pasolini's "I Racconti di Canterbury," Jonathan Myerson's animated "Canterbury Tales," the BBC television "Canterbury Tales," and Brian Helgeland's "A Knight's Tale."
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer on Screen.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Recordings and Films
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion