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oapen-20.500.12657-873442024-03-28T14:03:10Z The Getty Fiend White, Ken du Plessis, Michael werewolves;Bisclavret;Getty Museum;Los Angeles;mash-up;medieval literature;post-medievalism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DC Poetry::DCF Poetry by individual poets The Getty Fiend, a contemporary medieval melodrama set in Los Angeles’s Getty Museum, takes the reader on a tour filled with rock stars and warrior-kings, werewolves and archivists, sartorial Huns and libertine saints, all seen through the keenly dramatic flair of a collector’s eye. A cinematic and labyrinthine take on pulp horror, Ken White’s screenplay-in-verse is a monster mash-up of forms and languages, facades and carnal catastrophes, archaic languages and misplaced rhetorics—a campy, fantastical gender-bending transformation into the inadvertently divine. 2024-01-29T10:17:45Z 2024-01-29T10:17:45Z 2024 book 9781685711962 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87344 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 0534.1.00.pdf https://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-getty-fiend/ punctum books Les Figues 10.53288/0534.1.00 10.53288/0534.1.00 979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13 9781685711962 ScholarLed Les Figues 127 Brooklyn, NY open access
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The Getty Fiend, a contemporary medieval melodrama set in Los Angeles’s Getty Museum, takes the reader on a tour filled with rock stars and warrior-kings, werewolves and archivists, sartorial Huns and libertine saints, all seen through the keenly dramatic flair of a collector’s eye. A cinematic and labyrinthine take on pulp horror, Ken White’s screenplay-in-verse is a monster mash-up of forms and languages, facades and carnal catastrophes, archaic languages and misplaced rhetorics—a campy, fantastical gender-bending transformation into the inadvertently divine.
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