The Mythical method: eliot's 'the waste land' and a canterbury tale (1944)

Freer examines how mythological references seen through a lens of modernist perspective serve to explore a theme of cultural dislocation in the 1944 British film A Canterbury Tale, directed and produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Freer argues that the cross-cultural correspondences in...

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Published in:Historical journal of film, radio, and television radio, and television, 2007-08, Vol.27 (3), p.357-370
Main Author: Freer, Scott
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cultural identity
Dislocations
Modernism
Modernization
Motion picture criticism
Mythology
Poetry
Powell, Michael
Pressburger, Emeric (1902-1988)
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Summary:Freer examines how mythological references seen through a lens of modernist perspective serve to explore a theme of cultural dislocation in the 1944 British film A Canterbury Tale, directed and produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Freer argues that the cross-cultural correspondences in the film attempt to restructure the disconnected desires of the contemporary individual with a more communal and symbolically continuous social past.
ISSN:0143-9685
1465-3451
DOI:10.1080/01439680701443127