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Cinematic illuminations : the Middle Ages on film

Title
Cinematic illuminations : the Middle Ages on film / Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Shichtman.
Author
Finke, Laurie.
Publication
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

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Additional Authors
Shichtman, Martin B.
Description
xi, 445 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
Middle Ages in motion pictures
Bibliography (note)
  • 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.
Call Number
MFL 10-1376
ISBN
  • 9780801893445 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0801893445 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780801893452 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0801893453 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2008052304
OCLC
YBP 2008052304
Author
Finke, Laurie.
Title
Cinematic illuminations : the Middle Ages on film / Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Shichtman.
Imprint
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Shichtman, Martin B.
Research Call Number
MFL 10-1376
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