Cinematic Illuminations

The Middle Ages on Film

Autor: Laurie A. Finke, Martin B. Shichtman

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Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: Johns Hopkins University Press

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele v malém množství

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This engaging new study analyzes cinematic treatments of the Middle Ages within a diverse range of p...

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Autor

Laurie A. Finke, Martin B. Shichtman

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2009

Stránek

464

EAN

9780801893445

Enbook ID

04710229

Vydavatel

Johns Hopkins University Press

Hmotnost

771

Rozměry

152 x 229 x 34

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This engaging new study analyzes cinematic treatments of the Middle Ages within a diverse range of popular and artistic films. At a time when students have more experience with watching movies than with reading and evaluating literature and history, Cinematic Illuminations harnesses the power of popular culture to make accessible a period that often seems forbidding and remote. From The Seventh Seal and The Lion in Winter to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the authors examine the ways in which the twentieth century has reimagined medieval times. Such analysis brings to life for students the literature, poetry, history, and art of the Middle Ages. Drawing from current critical approaches to both medieval and film studies, Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Shichtman focus on two main issues of historical film. First is the inherent tension between the artifice required by film to create historical reality and the accuracy central to claims of history. Second are the ways iconography and filming conventions rewrite our understanding of the historical period portrayed in the film. In this case, the authors ask, how do contemporary representations of the Middle Ages influence cultural fantasies about our own time? Their detailed and accessible readings reveal just how strongly medieval history continues to resonate with modern audiences. Cinematic Illuminations offers medievalists, literary and cultural theorists, and film theorists and buffs a fresh approach to understanding how popular culture interprets and makes use of the past through the medium of film.

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