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King Arthur and Robin Hood on the radio: adaptations for American listeners./ by Katherine Barnes Echols.
- Title
- King Arthur and Robin Hood on the radio: adaptations for American listeners./ by Katherine Barnes Echols.
- Author
- Echols, Katherine Barnes
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina McFarland Publishing 2017.
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- Description
- 207 pages.; 23cm.
- Summary
- "Before stories of King Arthur and Robin Hood were adapted and readapted for film, television and theater, radio scriptwriters looking for material turned to Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur (1485) and Howard Pyle's The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883). Many of these adaptations reflect the moral and ethical questions of the day"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Radio and the formation of the imagined community -- Adapting King Arthur and Robin Hood's legend for radio -- What is radio medievalism? -- Adapting Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur for radio -- The chivalric ethos of the comic hero: Superman and Prince Valiant -- White Knight of the range: the arthurian knight in the radio western -- Radio adaptations of Robin Hood -- Lighthearted adaptations.
- ISBN
- 9781476667041
- 1476667047
- OCLC
- 985075789
- SCSB-11438747
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library