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Sweeney Todd: Adapting a Victorian Urban Legend. Martín-González, Juan José Adaptaciones cinematográficas Folklore urbano This chapter is aimed at examining two neo-Victorian adaptations of the legend of Sweeney Todd: Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd. The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. A Musical Thriller (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 will consider the medium-specific features of theatre and cinema that come out in the play and the film referred above respectively. Secondly, I will look into how violence is portrayed in each adaptation and I will peruse the social-political resonances of the legend in general by tracing briefly its adaptation evolution from the nineteenth century up to nowadays. 2025-07-23T09:30:15Z 2025-07-23T09:30:15Z 2025-07-23T09:30:15Z 2013 conference output 978-84-616-6917-2 https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39454 eng 36th AEDEAN Conference Universidad de Málaga 2013 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Universidad de Málaga