Description: Further DetailsTitle: Movie MedievalismCondition: NewSubtitle: The Imaginary Middle AgesEAN: 9780786434435ISBN: 9780786434435Publisher: McFarland & Co IncFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/24/2008Description: This work offers a theoretical introduction to the portrayal of medievalism in popular film. Employing the techniques of film criticism and theory, it moves beyond the simple identification of error toward a poetics of this type of film, sensitive to both cinema history and to the role these films play in constructing what the author terms the "medieval imaginary." The opening two chapters introduce the rapidly burgeoning field of medieval film studies, viewed through the lenses of Lacanian psychoanalysis and the Deleuzian philosophy of the time-image. The first chapter explores how a vast array of films (including both auteur cinema and popular movies) contributes to the modern vision of life in the Middle Ages, while the second is concerned with how time itself functions in cinematic representations of the medieval. The remaining five chapters offer detailed considerations of specific examples of representations of medievalism in recent films, including First Knight, A Knight's Tale, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, Kingdom of Heaven, King Arthur, Night Watch, and The Da Vinci Code. The book also surveys important benchmarks in the development of Deleuze's time-image, from classic examples like Bergman's The Seventh Seal and Kurosawa's Kagemusha through contemporary popular cinema, in order to trace how movie medievalism constructs images of the multivalence of time in memory and representation. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.Language: EnglishAuthor: Nickolas HaydockGenre: Films & TVISBN-10: 0786434430Country/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 12mmItem Weight: 336gRelease Year: 2008 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Movie Medievalism
Title: Movie Medievalism
Subtitle: The Imaginary Middle Ages
EAN: 9780786434435
ISBN: 9780786434435
Release Date: 03/24/2008
Release Year: 2008
Genre: Films & TV
ISBN-10: 0786434430
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Number of Pages: 244 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Movie Medievalism : the Imaginary Middle Ages
Publisher: Mcfarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Subject: Film / General, Film / History & Criticism, Europe / Medieval
Publication Year: 2008
Item Height: 0.5 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 11.9 Oz
Subject Area: Performing Arts, History
Author: Nickolas Haydock
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
