Cinematic illuminations the Middle Ages on film /
| Main Author: | Finke, Laurie. |
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| Other Authors: | Shichtman, Martin B. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2010.
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| Physical Description: |
xi, 445 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects: |
| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Theory and methods of cinematic medievalism. Traversing the fantasy : screening the Middle Ages -- Signs of the medieval : a sociological stylistics of film -- Celluloid history : cinematic fidelity and infidelity -- The politics of cinematic medievalism. Mirror of princes : representations of political authority in medieval films -- Politics of hagiography : Joan of Arc on the screen -- The hagiography of politics : mourning in America -- The Crusades : war of the cross or God's own bloodbath? -- Cinematic medievalism and the anxieties of modernity. Looking awry at the grail : mourning becomes modernity -- Apocalyptic medievalism : rape and disease as figures of social anomie -- Forever young : the teen Middle Ages. Theory and methods of cinematic medievalism. Traversing the fantasy : screening the Middle Ages -- Signs of the medieval : a sociological stylistics of film -- Celluloid history : cinematic fidelity and infidelity -- The politics of cinematic medievalism. Mirror of princes : representations of political authority in medieval films -- Politics of hagiography : Joan of Arc on the screen -- Hagiography of politics : mourning in America -- Crusades : war of the cross or God's own bloodbath? -- Cinematic medievalism and the anxieties of modernity. Looking awry at the grail : mourning becomes modernity -- Apocalyptic medievalism : rape and disease as figures of social anomie -- Forever young : the teen Middle Ages. |
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| Physical Description: |
xi, 445 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780801893445 0801893445 9780801893452 0801893453 |