Cinema Medievalia

New Essays on the Reel Middle Ages

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Edited by Kevin J. Harty and Scott Manning

Type

Essays

Subject

Genre > Historical films

Keywords

historical films, medieval

Publishing date

2024

Publisher

McFarland & Co

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 386 pages
7 x 10 inches (18 x 25.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4766-8916-6

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Book Presentation:
This collection of original essays presents new scholarship on nearly three dozen feature-length films, including silent films, animated films, films in black and white, and films in technicolor, along with other, shorter examples of cinematic medievalism.

Written by contributors from around the globe with a wide variety of backgrounds, the essays in this volume take a critical approach to one of the most popular forms of medivalism. This book presents a full century of cinematic depictions of the Middle Ages, with new examinations of works such as The Seventh Seal, God’s Fool, La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, Saladin the Victorious, Dante’s Inferno: An Animated Epic, and A Knight’s Tale, among others.

About the authors:
Kevin J. Harty, professor and formerly chair of English and coordinator of the Undergraduate General Education Core at La Salle University in Philadelphia, is associate editor of Arthuriana, the official journal of the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society (of which he is the former president). He has previously written or edited 14 books, including ground-breaking studies of depictions of the Middle Ages on film.
Scott Manning has published a book on Joan of Arc, as well as essays in Studies in Medievalism, Film & History, and The Year’s Work in Medievalism and is co-chair of the Medieval & Renaissance Area for the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association.

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