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Race, class, and gender in "medieval" cinema /

The medieval film genre is not, in general, concerned with constructing a historically accurate past, but much analysis nonetheless centers on highlighting anachronisms. This book aims to help scholars and aficionados of medieval film think about how the re-creation of an often mythical past perform...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ramey, Lynn Tarte, 1964-, Pugh, Tison
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Colección:New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Once, present, and future kings: kingdom of heaven and the multitemporality of medieval film / Arthur Lindley
  • Chahine's destiny: prophetic nostalgia and the other middle classes / Don Hoffman
  • Reversing the crusades: hegemony, orientalism, and film language in Youssef Chahine's Saladin / John M. Ganim
  • Samurai on shifting ground: negotiating the Medieval and the modern in Seven Samurai and Yojimbo / Randy P. Schiff
  • Vikings through the eyes of an Arab ethnographer: constructions of the other in The 13th warrior / Lynn Shutters
  • Mission historical, or "[T]here were a hell of a lot of knights": ethnicity and alterity in Jerry Bruckheimer's King Arthur / Carolin Jewers
  • 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
  • Queering the Medieval dead: history, horror, and masculinity in Sam Raimi's Evil dead trilogy / Tison Pugh
  • In praise of troubadourism: creating community in occupied France, 1942-43 / Lynn T. Ramey
  • Sexing warrior women in China's martial arts world: King Hu's A touch of Zen / Peter Lorge
  • The hawk, the wolf, and the mouse: tracing the gendered other in Richard Donner's Ladyhawke / Angela Jane Weisl
  • Chaucer's man show: anachronistic authority in Brian Helgeland's A knight's tale / Holly A. Crocker
  • 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.