Title: Race, class, and gender in "medieval" cinema /
Authors: Ramey, Lynn Tarte, 1964-; Pugh, Tison
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Middle Ages in motion pictures.; Race in motion pictures.; Social classes in motion pictures.; Sex role in motion pictures.
Contents: Once, present, and future kings: kingdom of heaven and the multitemporality of medieval film / Arthur Lindley -- Chahine's destiny: prophetic nostalgia and the other middle classes / Don Hoffman -- Reversing the crusades: hegemony, orientalism, and film language in Youssef Chahine's Saladin / John M. Ganim -- Samurai on shifting ground: negotiating the Medieval and the modern in Seven Samurai and Yojimbo / Randy P. Schiff -- Vikings through the eyes of an Arab ethnographer: constructions of the other in The 13th warrior / Lynn Shutters -- Mission historical, or "[T]here were a hell of a lot of knights": ethnicity and alterity in Jerry Bruckheimer's King Arthur / Carolin Jewers -- Inner-city chivalry in Gil Junger's Black knight: a South Central Yankee in King Leo's court / Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Shichtman --Queering the Medieval dead: history, horror, and masculinity in Sam Raimi's Evil dead trilogy / Tison Pugh -- In praise of troubadourism: creating community in occupied France, 1942-43 / Lynn T. Ramey -- Sexing warrior women in China's martial arts world: King Hu's A touch of Zen / Peter Lorge -- The hawk, the wolf, and the mouse: tracing the gendered other in Richard Donner's Ladyhawke / Angela Jane Weisl -- Chaucer's man show: anachronistic authority in Brian Helgeland's A knight's tale / Holly A. Crocker -- The "other" women of Sherwood: the construction of difference and gender in cinematic treatments of the Robin Hood legend / Lorrain K. Stock and Candace Gregory-Abbott.