This collection of original essays presents new scholarship on nearly three dozen feature-length films, including silent films, animated films, films in black and white, and films in technicolor, along with other, shorter examples of cinematic medievalism. Written by contributors from around the globe with a wide variety of backgrounds, the essays in this volume take a critical approach to one of the most popular forms of medivalism. This book presents a full century of cinematic depictions of the Middle Ages, with new examinations of works such as The Seventh Seal, God's Fool, La Passion de…mehr
This collection of original essays presents new scholarship on nearly three dozen feature-length films, including silent films, animated films, films in black and white, and films in technicolor, along with other, shorter examples of cinematic medievalism. Written by contributors from around the globe with a wide variety of backgrounds, the essays in this volume take a critical approach to one of the most popular forms of medivalism. This book presents a full century of cinematic depictions of the Middle Ages, with new examinations of works such as The Seventh Seal, God's Fool, La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, Saladin the Victorious, Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic, and A Knight's Tale, among others.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Kevin J. Harty, professor and formerly chair of English and coordinator of the Undergraduate General Education Core at La Salle University in Philadelphia, is associate editor of Arthuriana, the official journal of the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society (of which he is the former president). He has previously written or edited 14 books, including ground-breaking studies of depictions of the Middle Ages on film. Scott Manning has published a book on Joan of Arc, as well as essays in Studies in Medievalism, Film & History, and The Year's Work in Medievalism and is co-chair of the Medieval & Renaissance Area for the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association.
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Table of Contents Preface The Middle Ages, from Real to Reel: An Introduction Kevin J. Harty and Scott Manning Accidents of Time and Timing: The Seventh Seal (1957) and Black Death (2010) Dorsey Armstrong The Consolation of Medievalism in Vincent Ward's The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988) Helen Young Francis of Assisi: Making a Twelfth-Century Saint Accessible to Twentieth-and Twenty-First-Century Audiences Francis Berna The Archbishop and the King: Peter Glenville's Becket (1964) Jonathan Good The Book of Joan of Arc on Trial: Dreyer and Bresson Gail Orgelfinger The Northman's Place in Viking Film History Zachary J. Melton "A decadent and child-murdering Wali": The Targeted Racialization of the "Arab Sectarian" in Youssef Chahine's Saladin the Victorious (1963) Tirumular (Drew) Narayanan Medieval Scotland on Film: Braveheart and the Scottish Discursive Imaginary Laura S. Harrison and Andrew B.R. Elliott Making Padanians: Barbarossa (2009) and Repurposing the Myth of the Lombard League Scott Manning The Illusion of Musical Authenticity in Alexander Nevsky (1938) John Haines On the Queerness of England's King John, as Captured in 473 Years of Stage and Screen Portrayals Tison Pugh The Depths of Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic Karl Fugelso "Nevertheless, she persisted": Marginalizing the Other at the Intersection of Gender and Race in Fritz Lang's Film Kriemhilds Rache (Kriemhild's Revenge) Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand Marcel Carné's Les Visiteurs du soir and the Principle of "Included Third" Raeleen Chai-Elsholz Authenticity, Neoliberalism, and Socialism: The Name of the Rose (1986) Richard Utz Ridley Scott's The Last Duel and Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring in Dialog: From Shame Culture to Guilt Culture Sandra Gorgievski "Are you a woman or a blacksmith?" Cross-Sex Friendship Bonds in Brian Helgeland's A Knight's Tale Richard Sévère "Beware the Jabberwock": Terry Gilliam's Fractured Fairy Tale Susan Aronstein and Taran Drummond David Lowery's The Green Knight (2021): Authenticity and Accuracy, Historicons and Easter Eggs Kevin J. Harty Bibliography About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Preface The Middle Ages, from Real to Reel: An Introduction Kevin J. Harty and Scott Manning Accidents of Time and Timing: The Seventh Seal (1957) and Black Death (2010) Dorsey Armstrong The Consolation of Medievalism in Vincent Ward's The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988) Helen Young Francis of Assisi: Making a Twelfth-Century Saint Accessible to Twentieth-and Twenty-First-Century Audiences Francis Berna The Archbishop and the King: Peter Glenville's Becket (1964) Jonathan Good The Book of Joan of Arc on Trial: Dreyer and Bresson Gail Orgelfinger The Northman's Place in Viking Film History Zachary J. Melton "A decadent and child-murdering Wali": The Targeted Racialization of the "Arab Sectarian" in Youssef Chahine's Saladin the Victorious (1963) Tirumular (Drew) Narayanan Medieval Scotland on Film: Braveheart and the Scottish Discursive Imaginary Laura S. Harrison and Andrew B.R. Elliott Making Padanians: Barbarossa (2009) and Repurposing the Myth of the Lombard League Scott Manning The Illusion of Musical Authenticity in Alexander Nevsky (1938) John Haines On the Queerness of England's King John, as Captured in 473 Years of Stage and Screen Portrayals Tison Pugh The Depths of Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic Karl Fugelso "Nevertheless, she persisted": Marginalizing the Other at the Intersection of Gender and Race in Fritz Lang's Film Kriemhilds Rache (Kriemhild's Revenge) Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand Marcel Carné's Les Visiteurs du soir and the Principle of "Included Third" Raeleen Chai-Elsholz Authenticity, Neoliberalism, and Socialism: The Name of the Rose (1986) Richard Utz Ridley Scott's The Last Duel and Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring in Dialog: From Shame Culture to Guilt Culture Sandra Gorgievski "Are you a woman or a blacksmith?" Cross-Sex Friendship Bonds in Brian Helgeland's A Knight's Tale Richard Sévère "Beware the Jabberwock": Terry Gilliam's Fractured Fairy Tale Susan Aronstein and Taran Drummond David Lowery's The Green Knight (2021): Authenticity and Accuracy, Historicons and Easter Eggs Kevin J. Harty Bibliography About the Contributors Index
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