Race, class, and gender in "medieval" cinema
By: edited by Lynn T. Ramey and Tison Pugh.
Contributors: Ramey, Lynn Tarte, 1964-; Pugh, Tison.
Series: The new Middle Ages; New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781403974273
Subjects: Middle Ages in motion pictures; Race in motion pictures; Social classes in motion pictures; Sex role in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Once, present, and future kings: kingdom of heaven and the multitemporality of medieval film / Arthur Lindley; title: Chahine's destiny: prophetic nostalgia and the other middle classes / Don Hoffman; title: Reversing the crusades: hegemony, orientalism, and film language in Youssef Chahine's Saladin / John M. Ganim; title: Samurai on shifting ground: negotiating the Medieval and the modern in Seven Samurai and Yojimbo / Randy P. Schiff; title: Vikings through the eyes of an Arab ethnographer: constructions of the other in The 13th warrior / Lynn Shutters; title: Mission historical, or "[T]here were a hell of a lot of knights": ethnicity and alterity in Jerry Bruckheimer's King Arthur / Carolin Jewers; title: 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; title: Queering the Medieval dead: history, horror, and masculinity in Sam Raimi's Evil dead trilogy / Tison Pugh; title: In praise of troubadourism: creating community in occupied France, 1942-43 / Lynn T. Ramey; title: Sexing warrior women in China's martial arts world: King Hu's A touch of Zen / Peter Lorge; title: The hawk, the wolf, and the mouse: tracing the gendered other in Richard Donner's Ladyhawke / Angela Jane Weisl; title: Chaucer's man show: anachronistic authority in Brian Helgeland's A knight's tale / Holly A. Crocker; title: 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.