Cinematic Illuminations The Middle Ages on Film

Name: Cinematic Illuminations The Middle Ages on Film
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ISBN: 9780801893452

ISBN-10: 0801893453

ISBN-13: 9780801893452

Edition: 2009

Authors: Laurie A. Finke, Martin B. Shichtman

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This engaging new study analyzes cinematic treatments of the Middle Ages within a diverse range of popular and artistic films.At a time when students have more experience with watching movies than with reading and evaluating literature and history, Cinematic Illuminations harnesses the power of popular culture to make accessible a period that often seems forbidding and remote. From The Seventh Seal and The Lion in Winter to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the authors examine the ways in which the twentieth century has reimagined medieval times. Such analysis brings to life for students the literature, poetry, history, and art of the Middle Ages.Drawing from current critical approaches to…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 12/7/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.08" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



List of Figures


Acknowledgments



Theory and Methods of Cinematic Medievalism



Traversing the Fantasy: Screening the Middle Ages



Signs of the Medieval: A Sociological Stylistics of Film



Celluloid History: Cinematic Fidelity and Infidelity



The Politics of Cinematic Medievalism



Mirror of Princes: Representations of Political Authority in Medieval Films



The Politics of Hagiography: Joan of Arc on the Screen



The Hagiography of Politics: Mourning in America



The Crusades: War of the Cross or God's Own Bloodbath?



Cinematic Medievalism and the Anxieties of Modernity



Looking Awry at the Grail: Mourning Becomes Modernity



Apocalyptic Medievalism: Rape and Disease as Figures of Social Anomie



Forever Young: The Teen Middle Ages


Notes


Bibliography


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