Romanticism and Popular Culture

This evolving bibliography collects media that represent Romantic-era works and historical figures in fictional contexts. We welcome feedback and additions from the RC community.

Film

Mean Streets

Director:

Martin Scorsese

Publication Information:

Taplin - Perry - Scorsese Productions

Date:

1973

In his movie Mean Streets (1973), Martin Scorsese refers to Blake's poem "The Tyger" when a young pet tiger makes Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro take refuge atop a couch, paralleling the grit and innocence of life in the city. -Wikipedia

Metropolitan

Director:

Whit Stillman

Publication Information:

Westerly Films, Allagash Films

Date:

1990

"A group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up." -IMDB

Miss Austen Regrets

Director:

Jeremy Lovering

Publication Information:

BBC

Date:

2007

"In the later years of her life, as she's approaching the age of forty, the novelist Jane Austen helps her niece find a husband." -IMDB

Mystery! Frankenstein—Legend of Terror (Kaiki Furankenshutain)

Director:

Yugo Serikawa, Toyoo Ashida

Publication Information:

Toei Animation

Date:

1981

Kyōfu Densetsu Kaiki!

Only Lovers Left Alive

Director:

Jim Jarmusch

Publication Information:

Recorded Picture Company, Sony

Date:

2013

Byron and Percy Shelley are mentioned as former companions of the vampire Adam (Lee Pace).

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Orlando

Director:

Sally Pooter

Publication Information:

Sony Pictures Classics

Date:

1992

Shelley's poems The Revolt of Islam and Indian Serenade are recited in Sally Potter's film Orlando. -Wikipedia

Pandaemonium

Director:

Julien Temple

Publication Information:

BBC

Date:

2000

Pandaemonium is a film "based on the early lives of English poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, in particular their collaboration on the 'Lyrical Ballads,' and Coleridge's writing of 'Kubla Khan.'" -Wikipedia

Pride and Prejudice

Director:

Robert Z. Leonard

Publication Information:

MGM Studios

Date:

1940

"The screenplay was written by Aldous Huxley and Jane Murfin, adapted specifically from the stage adaptation by Helen Jerome in addition to Jane Austen's novel. The film is about five sisters from an English family of landed gentry who must deal with issues of marriage, morality, and misconceptions." -Wikipedia

Starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier.

Pride and Prejudice

Director:

Joe Wright

Publication Information:

Focus Features, Universal Pictures, Studio Canal

Date:

2005

"The film depicts five sisters from an English family of landed gentry as they deal with issues of marriage, morality and misconceptions." -Wikipedia

Starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Director:

Burr Steers

Date:

2016

Starring Lily James, Sam Riley, Jack Huston, Bella Heathcote, Douglas Booth, Matt Smith, Charles Dance, and Lena Headey.

Pride and Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy

Director:

Andrew Black

Publication Information:

Bestboy Pictures, Camera 40 Productions

Date:

2003

"Jane Austen's classic is transplanted to modern-day Utah. While her college roommates search for love, aspiring writer Elizabeth Bennet focuses on her career but constantly finds herself fighting haughty businessman Will Darcy." -IMDB

Red Dragon

Director:

Brett Ratner

Publication Information:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Date:

2002

Red Dragon (2002) include[s] images of Blake's "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun". - Wikipedia

Remando al viento (Rowing with the Wind)

Director:

Gonzalo Suarez

Publication Information:

Andres Vicente Gomez

Date:

1987

"Hugh Grant as Byron and Elizabeth Hurley as Claire Clairmont—this really seems too good to be true, but that's what the Internet Movie Database claims" —A. Richardson.

Roman Holiday

Director:

William Wyler

Publication Information:

Paramount Pictures

Date:

1953

In the film Roman Holiday (1953), Audrey Hepburn's character Princess Ann drunkenly recites the lines "Arethusa arose / From her couch of snows / In the Acroceraunian mountains" from her "favorite poem," "Arethusa," which she repeatedly attributes to Keats; Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck) corrects "Shelley."

Santo Contra La Hija de Frankenstein (La Hija de Frankenstein)

Director:

Miguel M. Delgado

Publication Information:

Cinematografica Calderon/Azteca Films

Date:

1971

Directed by Miguel M. Delgado, starring Santo, Gina Romand, Znel, Roberto Canedo, Carlos Agosti, and Sonia Fuentes.

Santo y Blue Demon Contra El Dr. Frankenstein

Director:

Miguel M. Delgado

Publication Information:

Cinematografica Calderon

Date:

1970

El Santo and Blue Demon team up with a couple of detectives to stop the grandson of Dr Frankenstein from conducting fiendish brain transplant experiments. --description from IMDb

Directed by Miguel M. Delgado, starring Santo, Blue Demon, Sasha Montenegro, Jorge Russek, and Ivonne Govea.

Sense and Sensibility

Director:

Ang Lee

Publication Information:

Columbia Pictures, Mirage Enterprises

Date:

1995

"Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the titular opposites." -IMDB

Starring Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet.

Stardust Memories

Director:

Woody Allen

Date:

1980

Woody Allen's film Stardust Memories (1980), along with To Rome with Love (2012), use the term "Ozymandias Melancholia", which Allen defines as "the realization that your works of art will not save you and will mean nothing down the line."

That Hamilton Woman

Director:

Alexander Korda

Date:

1941

Tags:

Emma Hamilton

From Wikipedia: “That Hamilton Woman, (also known as Lady Hamilton and The Enchantress), is a 1941 black-and-white historical film drama, produced and directed by Alexander Korda for his American company during his exile in the United States. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, the film tells the story of the rise and fall of Emma Hamilton, dance-hall girl and courtesan, who married Sir William Hamilton, British ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples. She later became mistress to Admiral Horatio Nelson.”

The Bad Lord Byron

Director:

David MacDonald

Publication Information:

Sydney Box Productions

Date:

1949

The Bad Lord Byron (1949) starred Dennis Price as the poet in a sanitised biopic of his life. -Wikipedia

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Director:

Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Date:

2018

In the Netflix film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), the section entitled "Meal Ticket" features a character billed as "The Artist" (played by Harry Melling), a man without arms or legs who performs as "The Wingless Thrush, Celebrated Thespian, Orator, and Entertainer." The opening reading from his performance is Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias."

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