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V for Vendetta as Cultural Pastiche: A Critical Study of the Graphic Novel and Film

V for Vendetta as Cultural Pastiche: A Critical Study of the Graphic Novel and Film


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The 2005 James McTeigue and Wachowski Brothers film V for Vendetta represents a postmodern pastiche, a collection of fragments pasted together from the original Moore and Lloyd graphic novel of the same name, along with numerous allusions to literature, history, cinema, music, art, politics, and medicine. Paralleling the graphic novel, the film simultaneously reflects a range of authorial contributions and influences. This work examines in detail the intersecting texts of V for Vendetta. Subjects include the alternative dimensions of the cinematic narrative, represented in the film's conspicuous placement of the painting The Lady of Shalott in V's home; the film's overt allusions to the AIDS panic of the 1980s; and the ways in which antecedent narratives such as Terry Gilliam's Brazil, Huxley's Brave New World, and Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 represent shadow texts frequently crossing through the overall V for Vendetta narrative.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents Introduction: Shadow Texts, Superstrings, and Parallel Universes      1. Tyranny and the Powder Treason      2. V’s Terrorism: Power and Performance      3. “Half Sick of Shadows”: Tennyson, Waterhouse, and The Lady of Shalott      4. V and The Count of Monte Cristo      5. 1984 and the Dystopian Genre      6. Knight, Death, and Devil      7 “Odds and Ends Stolen Forth of Holy Writ”: Shakespeare and the Invention of V      8. “Monuments of Unaging Intellect”: The Shadows in V’s Gallery      9. V for Virus: The Spectacle of the AIDS Avenger and the Biomedical Military Trope      Conclusion: Of Shadow Texts      Bibliography      Index     

About the Author :
James R. Keller is a professor and chair of the English and Theatre department at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky. The author or editor of numerous works about popular culture, he lives in Lexington, Kentucky.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780786434671
  • Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 247
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Critical Study of the Graphic Novel and Film
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0786434678
  • Publisher Date: 10 Mar 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 247
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 390 gr


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