The Middle Ages on television
Subtitle: critical essays
By: edited by Meriem Pagès and Karolyn Kinane
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Jefferson, North Carolina
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780786479412; 9781476620091
Subjects: Middle Ages on television; Medievalism on television
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: television medievalisms / Meriem Pagès and Karolyn Kinane); title: Personal and political desires. The most dangerous sport in history is about to be reborn: medievalism and violence in full metal jousting / Angela Jane Weisl; title: Joan of Arcadia: a modern maiden on trial  / Stephanie I. Coker; title: William Webbe's wench: Henry VIII, history and popular culture / Shannon McSheffrey; title: Nature and adventure in Die Jagd nach dem schatz der nibelungen / Evan Torner; title: Narrative and genre. Episodic Arthur: Merlin, Camelot and the visual modernization of the medieval literary romance tradition / Melissa Ridley Elmes; title: Are you kidding? King Arthur and the knights of justice / Sandy Feinstein; title: Gender and sexuality. Television's male gaze: the male perspective in TNT's Mists of Avalon / Michael W. George; title: Gendering morals, magic and medievalism in the BBC's Merlin / Elysse T. Meredith; title: Arthur and Guenièvre: the royal couple of Kaamelott / Tara Foster; title: Homosexuality in television medievalism / Torben R. Gebhardt.