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T1 Sweeney Todd: Adapting a Victorian Urban Legend.
A1 Martín-González, Juan José
K1 Adaptaciones cinematográficas
K1 Folklore urbano
AB This chapter is aimed at examining two neo-Victorian adaptations of the legend of SweeneyTodd: Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd. The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. A MusicalThriller (1979) and Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007).Firstly, taking the analytical tenets of Adaptation theories as a point of departure, I willconsider the medium-specific features of theatre and cinema that come out in the play and thefilm referred above respectively. Secondly, I will look into how violence is portrayed in eachadaptation and I will peruse the social-political resonances of the legend in general by tracingbriefly its adaptation evolution from the nineteenth century up to nowadays.
PB Universidad de Málaga
SN 978-84-616-6917-2
YR 2013
FD 2013
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39454
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39454
LA eng
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026