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The man that wasn’t used up

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Leitch T.

Studia Filmoznawcze

2015

tom 36

199 - 214

Brevet Brigadier General John A.B.C. Smith, the cyborg hero of Edgar Allan Poe’s story “The Man Who Was Used Up,” offers an apt figure for Poe himself as he and his fiction have been used (but never used up) by adapters. Like his eponymous hero, the biographical figure of Poe turns out to be constructed for particular ends rather than simply observed; as the myth Gen. Smith provides a stellar example of the power of military mythmaking, Poe has been pressed into service to illustrate a series of Romantic myths about authors and authorship; and both figures make more powerful impressions in their constructed avatars — in Poe’s case, in what has been called the Poe discourse — than in avowedly biographical accounts. This essay considers some of the many uses to which adaptations have put Poe the storyteller, Poe the poet, Poe the detective, Poe the doomed lover, and Poe the suffering author, while consistently blurring the lines between the biographical Poe and the stories and poems he created and ultimately ascribing to the adaptations themselves the exclusive power to embody and complete the fictional worlds he adumbrated. It concludes by asking what distinguishes the few authors like Shakespeare, Austen, and Poe from the many oft-adapted authors who have never become mythic figures.

Scripting the saints

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Leitch T.

Studia Filmoznawcze

2019

tom 40

115-134

This essay approaches Hollywood movies about saints by analyzing the problems involved in at-tempting to follow both the scripts provided by the subjects’ lives and the surprisingly varied and often equally demanding scripts required of Hollywood movies in general and saints’ lives in par-ticular. Focusing on Hollywood movies about St. Francis of Assisi and Joan of Arc, it considers the impact of three kinds of scripts: positive demands to be dramatically well-constructed, inspirational, entertaining, uplifting, visually and sonically appealing, helpfully explicit in its exposition, and historically accurate; negative demands to avoid offending followers of the saints, members of the Catholic Church, and anyone else who might reasonably be construed as members of the target audience and to avoid the errors of earlier saint movies; and what might be called irrelevant scripts, those that might seem necessary for Hollywood saints’ lives to follow but that are actually either optional or impossible to follow.