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Neomedievalism in the media : essays on film, television, and electronic games

Title
Neomedievalism in the media : essays on film, television, and electronic games / edited by Carol L. Robinson and Pamela Clements ; with a preface by Richard Utz.
Publication
Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.

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Additional Authors
  • Robinson, Carol L.
  • Clements, Pamela.
Description
424 p., 10 leaves of plates : col. ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Middle Ages in motion pictures
  • Medievalism in motion pictures
  • Middle Ages on television
  • Medievalism on television
  • Middle Ages in video games
  • Medievalism in video games
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
MFL 13-4348
ISBN
  • 9780773426627
  • 0773426620
LCCN
2012007033
OCLC
776520476
Title
Neomedievalism in the media : essays on film, television, and electronic games / edited by Carol L. Robinson and Pamela Clements ; with a preface by Richard Utz.
Imprint
Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Robinson, Carol L.
Clements, Pamela.
Research Call Number
MFL 13-4348
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