Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture [electronic resource] /
Ashton, Gail,1957-
Ashton, G.editor.
Kline, D.editor.
This book is concerned with our ideological, technical and emotional investments in reclaiming medieval for contemporary popular culture. The authors illuminate both medieval and contemporary popular culture in surprising and productive ways while interrogating the many ways in which metamedievalism reinterprets and reconceptualises the medieval.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: Now and Then; 1. The YouTube Prioress: Anti-Semitism and Twenty-First Century Participatory Culture; 2. Animated Conversations in Nottingham: Disney's Robin Hood (1973); 3. Virginia Woolf 's Middle Ages; 4. Dario Fo's Mistero Buffo and the Left-Modernist Reclamation of Medieval Popular Culture; 5. Acephalic History: A Bataillian Reading of Monty Python and the Holy Grail; 6. Medievalism and Periodization in Frozen River and The Second Shepherds' Play: Environment, Class, Miracle
7. Time Travel, Pulp Fictions, and Changing Attitudes toward the Middle Ages: Why You Can't Get Renaissance on Somebody's Ass8. H. P. Lovecraft's "Unnamable" Middle Ages; 9. Confession, Contrition, and the Rhetoric of Tears: Medievalism and Reality Television; 10. Robin Hood, Frenched; 11. Brief Encounters: Arthur's Epic Journey in Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur (2005); 12. "My other world": Historical Ref lections and Refractions in Modern Arthurian Fantasy; 13. Queer Origins, Deformed Lines: Seeding the Future in Torchwood's "Children of Earth"
14. The Medieval Entertainment Channel: The Shrek QuartetBibliography; List of Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book is concerned with our ideological, technical and emotional investments in reclaiming medieval for contemporary popular culture. The authors illuminate both medieval and contemporary popular culture in surprising and productive ways while interrogating the many ways in which metamedievalism reinterprets and reconceptualises the medieval.
Literature
Culture
Literature, Medieval.
Literature
Popular culture
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
History of Medieval Europe.
Medieval Literature.
Literary History.
Cultural Studies.