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Neomedievalism in the media : essays on film, television, and electronic games /
This is a collection of essays that study the contemporary cultural depictions of medievalism. The book attempts to unravel distortions that tend to domesticate the era and represent it as an extension of modern life. Several authors claim that modernity is so radically different to medieval life th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lewiston :
The Edwin Mellen Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This is a collection of essays that study the contemporary cultural depictions of medievalism. The book attempts to unravel distortions that tend to domesticate the era and represent it as an extension of modern life. Several authors claim that modernity is so radically different to medieval life that we can only view the past as an extension of the present, rather than as radically different. The present distorts, and often politicizes the past, and these essays explore how everything from commercials, and video games, to the war on terror can contain elements of neo-medieval revisionism. Som. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (424 pages, 10 leaves of plates) : color illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780773421295 0773421297 |