Cinematic illuminations
Subtitle: the Middle Ages on film
By: Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Shichtman.
Contributors: Shichtman, Martin B.
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9780801893445; 9780801893452
Subjects: Middle Ages in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Theory and methods of cinematic medievalism. Traverse the fantasy: screening the Middle Ages; title: Signs of the medieval; title: Celluloid history; title: The politics of cinematic medievalism. Mirror of princes: representations of political authority in medieval films; title: Politics of hagiography: Joan of Arc on the screen; title: Hagiography of politics: mourning in America; title: The Crusades: war of the cross or God's own bloodbath; title: Cinematic medievalism and the anxieties of modernity; title: Looking awry at the grail: mourning becomes modernity; title: Rape and disease as figures for social anomie; title: Forever young: the teen Middle Ages.