num_pages: 272
description: Hollywood Knights examines Hollywood Arthuriana as political nostalgia offered to American viewers during times of cultural crisis: the red scare of the 1950s, the breakdown of traditional authority in the 1960s and 1970s, the turn to the right in the 1980s and the redemption of masculine and national authority in the 1990s. Its analysis of these films explores their proposal of an ideal past - an Americanized Camelot and a democratized chivalry - as the solution to the problems of a troubled present, a solution that will ensure prosperity in the homeland and a globally beneficial American authority abroad. Movies discussed include The Knights of the Round Table, The Sword in the Stone, Camelot, the Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies, Excalibur, and The Fisher King.
language: English
title: Hollywood Knights: Arthurian Cinema and the Politics of Nostalgia
titlecomplete: Hollywood Knights: Arthurian Cinema and the Politics of Nostalgia (Arthurian and Courtly Cultures)
genres: Arthurian
ratings_count: 4
series: Arthurian and Courtly Cultures
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan