Descript |
xi, 445 p. ; 23 cm. |
Contents |
Theory and methods of cinematic medievalism. Traverse the fantasy: screening the Middle Ages -- Signs of the medieval -- Celluloid history -- The politics of cinematic medievalism. Mirror of princes: representations of political authority in medieval films -- Politics of hagiography: Joan of Arc on the screen -- 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 -- Rape and disease as figures for social anomie -- Forever young: the teen Middle Ages. |
ISBN |
9780801893452 (pbk.) |
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9780801893445 (hbk.) |
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0801893453 (pbk.) |
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0801893445 (hbk) |
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