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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: neomedievalism in a vortext of discourse: film, television, and digital games / Carol L. Robinson
- Remembering dismembering: reading the violated body medievally / Leslie A. Coote
- Neomedieval trauma: the cinematic hyperreality of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury tales / Pamela Clements
- The use of nature: representing religion in medieval film / Christopher Roman
- Neo-Bushido: neomedieval anime and Japanese essence / Jennifer deWinter
- "You're still living in the Middle Ages!": time travel in Doctor Who and pseudo-historical, neomedieval alternate realities / Dave Rolinson
- "What do we do? hop on a bus to medieval times?": the use of medievalism in television fiction / Roderick W. McDonald
- "What's in your wallet?": how to construct an "authentic" Middle Ages / Alison Tara Walker
- The new scriptoria: neomedievalism and online textual communities / Lauryn Mayer
- Gaming with Odin: myth, context, and reconstruction of Hnefa-tafl, an Old Norse board game / Leon Wild
- The name of the game: misuses of neomedievalism in computerized role-playing games / Clay Kinchen Smith
- Commodifying the medieval in magic online / KellyAnn Fitzpatrick
- Blood will out: genealogy as destiny in medieval(ist) gaming / Amy S. Kaufman & Cory Grewell
- "For your labor I will give you treasure enough": labor and the third-estate in medieval-themed role-playing games / Kevin Moberly & Brent Moberly
- Neo-Tolkienism: plays upon playing with J.R.R. Tolkien's Playing with language / Carol L. Robinson & Pamela Clements
- "I'm not dead, yet!"-tracing the Pythonesque in neomedievalist media / Carol L. Robinson
- Epilogue: re-creating the medieval world / Terry Jones.