Grendel Grendel Grendel: Animating Beowulf

This open-access study of the 1981 animated film Grendel Grendel Grendel, directed by Alexander Stitt, presents it as a masterpiece of animation and design that has gained a national and international cult status. The film is a loose adaptation of the Beowulf legend from the monster's perspective. Dan Torre and Lienors Torre provide an analysis of the film, discussing its content and aesthetic, and its place in Australian and global film history. The ebook editions of the book are available open access on bloomsburycollections.com.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 216 pages
Publication date: 23 February 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

This open-access study of the film Grendel Grendel Grendel, directed by Alexander Stitt, presents it as a masterpiece of animation and design that has attained national and international cult status since its release in 1981. The film, based on the novel Grendel by John Gardner, is a loose adaptation of the Beowulf legend, but told from the point of view of the monster, Grendel.

Grendel Grendel Grendel is a mature, intelligent, irreverent, and quite unique animated film. It is a movie, both in terms of content and of an aesthetic that was well ahead of its time. Along with a brief overview of Australian animation and a contextualization of where this animated feature fits within the broader continuum of Australian (and global) film history, Dan Torre and Lienors Torre provide an intriguing analysis of this significant Australian animated feature. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com.

Weight: 316g
Dimension: 149 x 229 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781501381119