The Medieval Motion Picture [electronic resource] : The Politics of Adaptation /
Johnston, Andrew James.editor.
Rouse, Margitta.editor.
Hinz, Philipp.editor.
Providing new and challenging ways of understanding the medieval in the modern and vice versa, this volume highlights how medieval aesthetic experience breathes life into contemporary cinema. Engaging with the subject of time and temporality, the essays examine the politics of adaptation and our contemporary entanglement with the medieval.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Notes on  Contributors; INTRODUCTION:  TEMPORALITIES OF ADAPTATION; CHAPTER 1 "NOW IS THE TIME": SHAKESPEARE'S MEDIEVAL TEMPORALITIES IN AKIRA KUROSAWA'S RAN.*; CHAPTER 2 DRACULA'S TIMES: ADAPTING THE MIDDLE AGES IN FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA'S BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA; CHAPTER 3 RETHINKING ANACHRONISM FOR MEDIEVAL FILM IN RICHARD DONNER'S TIMELINE.*; CHAPTER 4 OTHERNESS REDOUBLED AND REFRACTED: INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUES IN THE THIRTEENTH WARRIOR; CHAPTER 5 CRISIS DISCOURSE AND ART THEORY:
CHAPTER 6 ADAPTATION AS HYPERREALITY: THE (A)HISTORICISM OF TRAUMA IN ROBERT ZEMECKIS'S BEOWULF.*CHAPTER 7 PERILS OF GENERATION: INCEST, ROMANCE, AND THE PROLIFERATION OF NARRATIVE IN GAME OF THRONES*; CHAPTER 8 ARTHURIAN MYTH AND CINEMATIC HORROR: M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN'S THE SIXTH SENSE; CHAPTER 9 MARIAN REWRITES THE LEGEND: THE TEMPORALITY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL REMAINS IN RICHARD LESTER'S ROBIN AND MARIAN; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Providing new and challenging ways of understanding the medieval in the modern and vice versa, this volume highlights how medieval aesthetic experience breathes life into contemporary cinema. Engaging with the subject of time and temporality, the essays examine the politics of adaptation and our contemporary entanglement with the medieval.
Literature, Medieval.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Motion pictures-History.
Literature-History and criticism.
Motion pictures and television.
Medieval Literature.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Film History.
Literary History.
Media Research.
Screen Studies.