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Author:
Haydock, Nickolas.
Title:
Movie medievalism : the imaginary Middle Ages / Nickolas Haydock.
Publisher:
McFarland,
Copyright Date:
c2008
Description:
ix, 234 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Middle Ages in motion pictures.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-228) and index.
Contents:
The medieval imaginary -- Time machines -- The waywardness of cinematic pastiche in First knight and A knight's tale -- Shooting the messenger : Luc Besson at war with Joan of Arc -- Theaters of war : paracinematic returns to the Kingdom of heaven -- Digital divagations in a hyperreal Camelot : Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur -- Postmedieval paranoia : the new Middle Ages of Night watch and The Da Vinci code.
Summary:
"The work introduces rapidly burgeoning field of medieval film studies; explores how a vast array of films contributes to the modern vision of life in the Middle Ages; is concerned with how time itself functions in cinematic representations of the medieval; and offers detailed considerations of specific examples of representations of medievalism in recent films"--Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
0786434430 (softcover : alk. paper)
9780786434435 (softcover : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)191866015
LCCN:
2008005531
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)
PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

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