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Cinematic illuminations : the Middle Ages on film

Author

Finke, Laurie.

Title

Cinematic illuminations : the Middle Ages on film / Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Shichtman.

Format

Book

Published

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

Description

xi, 445 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Other contributors

Shichtman, Martin B.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 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.

Subject headings

Middle Ages in motion pictures.

ISBN

9780801893445 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0801893445 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780801893452 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0801893453 (pbk. : alk. paper)