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Title

Mass market medieval : essays on the Middle Ages in popular culture / edited by David W. Marshall.

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors

Marshall, David W., 1970-

Description

x, 205 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"The 14 essays in this book encompass diverse theoretical perspectives and are grouped loosely around distinct functions of medievalism, including the exposure of recent social concerns; the use of medieval images in modern political contexts; and the medieval's influence on products of today's popular culture"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Medievalism
• Medievalism > Social aspects
• Medievalism > Political aspects
• Popular culture
• Commercial products > Social aspects
• Middle Ages in art
• Middle Ages in literature
• Middle Ages in motion pictures
• Rock music > Social aspects
• Culture in motion pictures

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : the medievalism of popular culture / David W. Marshall -- 1. Chaucer for a new millennium : the BBC Canterbury tales / Kevin J. Harty -- 2. "If I lay my hands on the grail" : Arthurianism and progressive rock / Paul Hardwick -- 3. The sound of silents : aurality and medievalism in Benjamin Christensen's Haxan / Alison Tara Walker -- 4. Antichrist superstars : the Vikings in hard rock and heavy metal / Simon Trafford and Aleks Pluskowski -- 5. The future is what it used to be : medieval prophecy and popular culture / Stephen Yandell -- 6. Idealized images of Wales in the fiction of Edith Pargeter/Ellis Peters / Lesley Jacobs -- 7. Places don't have to be true to be true : the appropriation of King Arthur and the cultural value of tourist sites / Benjamin Earl -- 8. "Accident my codlings" : sitcom, cinema and the re-writing of history in The blackadder / Katherine J. Lewis -- 9. Medieval history and cultural forgetting : oppositional ethnography in The templar revelation / Hannah R. Johnson -- 10. Teaching the Middle Ages / Carl James Grindley -- 11. Virtually medieval : The age of kings interprets the Middle Ages / Daniel T. Kline -- 12. A world unto itself : autopoietic systems and secondary worlds in Dungeons & dragons / David W. Marshall -- 13. Anything different is good : incremental repetition, courtly love, and purgatory in Groundhog Day / William Racicot.

ISBN

• 9780786429226 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0786429224 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007001362

OCLC

• OCM80019827
• 80019827
• SCSB-5331017

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries