![]() ![]() ![]() The trend of adapting graphic novels and comic books for mainstream film and television, which has a relatively long history, has only truly come into its own in the past decade. This is particularly evident, for example, in the procession of material that has emerged from the no-man’s-land of fandom to score major success in Hollywood films and network television, often to considerable critical acclaim. In the first instance, Stein succeeds in demonstrating the ubiquity of the Byronic hero is contemporary media. For Stein, the re-emergence of the Byronic hero into mainstream fiction and film is of broad historical and sociological interest. Stein develops her case as both comparison, a study of the evolution of the Byronic hero, and socio-political commentary, an analysis of what distinguishes artists of the Romantic period from contemporary novelists and screenwriters. In her book The Byronic Hero in Film, Fiction, and Television, Stein invites her reader to contemplate one such process, namely the popularization of the melancholy leader trope, which she interprets as a return to the long-marginalized anxieties that lead Byron to develop his particular brand of hero. Narratives that detail the gradual absorption of subcultures into the mainstream would do well to follow the lead of Atara Stein, an American scholar interested in the interface of Romanticism and popular culture. (Review copy supplied by Southern Illinois University Press) The Byronic Hero in Film, Fiction, and Television.Ĭarbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004 ![]()
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