Hollywood in the Holy Land
Subtitle: essays on film depictions of the Crusades and Christian-Muslim clashes
By: edited by Nickolas Haydock and E.L. Risden.
Contributors: Haydock, Nickolas.; Risden, Edward L., 1957-
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers; McFarland and Company, Inc.; McFarland
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780786441563
Subjects: Middle Ages in motion pictures; Crusades in motion pictures; East and West in motion pictures
Description: "An exciting new work in the burgeoning field of movie medievalism, this collection of essays focuses on film representations of the Crusades, other medieval East/West encounters, and the modern inheritance of encounters between orientalist fantasy and apocalyptic conspiracy. The essays themselves make substantial contributions to our understanding of orientalist medievalism in film"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The unseen cross upon the breast" : medievalism, orientalism, and discontent / Nickolas Haydock; title: Framing the West, staging the East : set design, location, and landscape in cinematic medievalism / John M. Ganim; title: Homeland security : Crusades through the East-European eyes of Alexander Nevsky and the Nevsky tradition / Nickolas Haydock; title: Now starring in the Third Crusade : depictions of Richard I and Saladin in films and television series / Lorraine Kochanske Stock; title: SaladiNasser : Nasser's political crusade in El Naser Salah Ad Din / Paul B. Sturtevant; title: "La geste que Turoldus declinet" : history and authorship in Frank Cassenti's Chanson de Roland / Lynn Ramey; title: Agenda layered upon agenda : Anthony Mann's 1961 film El Cid / Kevin J. Harty; title: El Cid : defeat of the cresentade / Tom Shippey; title: Nobody but the other buddy : Hollywood, the Crusades, and buddy pictures / E.L. Risden; title: Medieval times : bodily temporalities in the Thief of Bagdad (1924), The thief of Bagdad (1940), and Aladdin (1992) / Kathleen Coyne Kelly; title: Chivalric conspiracies : Templar romance and the redemption of history in National treasure and The Da Vinci code / Susan Aronstein and Robert Torry; title: On the border : merging East and West in Cadfael's twelfth-century Shropshire / William F. Hodapp; title: Movie millenarianism : left behind, script/ure and The sleeping dragon / Christopher Powers.