Movie medievalism
Subtitle: the imaginary Middle Ages
By: Nickolas Haydock.
Publisher: McFarland; McFarland & Company
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780786434435
Subjects: Middle Ages in motion pictures
Description: "The work introduces rapidly burgeoning field of medieval film studies; explores how a vast array of films contributes to the modern vision of life in the Middle Ages; is concerned with how time itself functions in cinematic representations of the medieval; and offers detailed considerations of specific examples of representations of medievalism in recent films"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The medieval imaginary; title: Time machines; title: The imaginary Middle Ages; title: The waywardness of cinematic pastiche in First knight and A knight's tale; title: Shooting the messenger : Luc Besson at war with Joan of Arc; title: Theaters of war : paracinematic returns to the kingdom of heaven; title: Digital divagations in a hyperreal Camelot : Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur; title: Postmedieval paranoia : the new Middle Ages of Night watch and the Da Vinci code.