Swashbucklers: The Costume Adventure Series, by James Chapman
James Chapman’s work Swashbucklers: The Costume Adventure Series provides an abbreviated, cross-continental history of British, American and European televised adaptations of iconic swashbuckler narratives taken from literature, legend and popular culture. There is an accessible fluidity of writing...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University College Cork
2016-08-01
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| Series: | Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media |
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| Online Access: | http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue11/HTML/ReviewPope.html |
| Summary: | James Chapman’s work Swashbucklers: The Costume Adventure Series provides an abbreviated, cross-continental history of British, American and European televised adaptations of iconic swashbuckler narratives taken from literature, legend and popular culture. There is an accessible fluidity of writing in Chapman’s book that draws the reader through this concentrated examination of the historical and cultural conventions of the televised exploits of the costumed, swashbuckling adventurer through analyses of the gender politics, cultural narratives and genre conventions associated with the televised swashbuckler genre. |
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| ISSN: | 2009-4078 |