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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 41
IS  - no. 2
T2  - Literature/Film Quarterly
SP  - 184-96
ID  - bbbc464
T1  - "Where Is the Bawdy?: Falstaffian Politics in Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho"
AU  - Protic, Nemanja
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2026
KW  - Falstaff
KW  - utopia
KW  - bawdry
KW  - grotesque
KW  - carnivalesque
KW  - politics
LA  - English
AB  - Compares Orson Welles's adaptation of 1 and 2 Henry IV in Chimes at Midnight (q.v.) to Gus Van Sant's transformation of the same plays in My Own Private Idaho (q.v.), finding that Welles sees Falstaff as both a utopian ideal from a mythic past and a bawdy figure who embodies the grotesque-carnivalesque aesthetic and thereby represents a future-oriented remedy to the realities of market-driven culture, while Van Sant insists upon the impossibility of recovering the utopian past and drains Falstaff's bawdy words of their carnivalesque energy, which prevents the film's Falstaffian politics from appearing to be any sort of guide to a better future.
ER  -