Format:
1 Online-Resesource (ix, 228 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9780230603561
Series Statement:
The New Middle Ages
Content:
This book aims to help scholars and aficionados of medieval film think about how the re-creation of an often mythical past performs important cultural work for modern directors and viewers.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Filming the "Other" Middle Ages -- Part I Multicultural Identities: A Lost Ideal? -- 1 Once, Present, and Future Kings: Kingdom of Heaven and the Multitemporality of Medieval Film -- 2 Chahine's Destiny: Prophetic Nostalgia and the Other Middle Ages -- 3 Reversing the Crusades: Hegemony, Orientalism, and Film Language in Youssef Chahine's Saladin -- 4 Samurai on Shifting Ground: Negotiating the Medieval and the Modern in Seven Samurai and Yojimbo -- Part II: Barbarism and the Medieval Other -- 5 Vikings through the Eyes of an Arab Ethnographer: Constructions of the Other in The 13th Warrior -- 6 Mission Historical, or "[T]here were a hell of a lot of knights": Ethnicity and Alterity in Jerry Bruckheimer's King Arthur -- 7 Inner-City Chivalry in Gil Junger's Black Knight: A South Central Yankee in King Leo's Court -- 8 Queering the Medieval Dead: History, Horror, and Masculinity in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead Trilogy -- Part III: Romantic Values -- 9 In Praise of Troubadourism: Creating Community in Occupied France, 1942-43 -- 10 Sexing Warrior Women in China's Martial Arts World: King Hu's A Touch of Zen -- 11 The Hawk, The Wolf, and The Mouse: Tracing the Gendered Other in Richard Donner's Ladyhawke -- 12 Chaucer's Man Show: Anachronistic Authority in Brian Helgeland's A Knight's Tale -- 13 The "Other" Women of Sherwood: The Construction of Difference and Gender in Cinematic Treatments of the Robin Hood Legend -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781403974273
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781403974273
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1057/9780230603561
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=308062
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