Neomedievalism in the media
Subtitle: essays on film, television, and electronic games
By: edited by Carol L. Robinson and Pamela Clements ; with a preface by Richard Utz
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lewiston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773426627
Subjects: Middle Ages in computer games; Medievalism in computer games; Middle Ages in motion pictures; Middle Ages on television; Medievalism on television; Medievalism in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: neomedievalism in a vortext of discourse: film, television, and digital games / Carol L. Robinson; title: Remembering dismembering: reading the violated body medievally / Leslie A. Coote; title: Neomedieval trauma: the cinematic hyperreality of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury tales / Pamela Clements; title: The use of nature: representing religion in medieval film / Christopher Roman; title: Neo-Bushido: neomedieval anime and Japanese essence / Jennifer deWinter; title: "You're still living in the Middle Ages!": time travel in Doctor Who and pseudo-historical, neomedieval alternate realities / Dave Rolinson; title: "What do we do? hop on a bus to medieval times?": the use of medievalism in television fiction / Roderick W. McDonald; title: "What's in your wallet?": how to construct an "authentic" Middle Ages / Alison Tara Walker; title: The new scriptoria: neomedievalism and online textual communities / Lauryn Mayer; title: Gaming with Odin: myth, context, and reconstruction of Hnefa-tafl, an Old Norse board game / Leon Wild; title: The name of the game: misuses of neomedievalism in computerized role-playing games / Clay Kinchen Smith; title: Commodifying the medieval in magic online / KellyAnn Fitzpatrick; title: Blood will out: genealogy as destiny in medieval(ist) gaming / Amy S. Kaufman & Cory Grewell; title: "For your labor I will give you treasure enough": labor and the third-estate in medieval-themed role-playing games / Kevin Moberly & Brent Moberly; title: Neo-Tolkienism: plays upon playing with J. R. R. Tolkien's Playing with language / Carol L. Robinson & Pamela Clements; title: "I'm not dead, yet!"-tracing the Pythonesque in neomedievalist media / Carol L. Robinson; title: Epilogue: re-creating the medieval world / Terry Jones.