SyFy Listings for January 2011

Here are the relevant listings for SyFy for January 2011. Note that the third season of BBC1's Merlin premieres this month.

SAT. 1 JAN
11:00 AM
The Twilight Zone -- A Short Drink From A Certain Fountain


WEDNES., 5 JAN
10:00 AM
Ghost Hunters International -- Witches Castle
09:00 PM
Ghost Hunters International, Season 2.9 -- Hamlet's Castle: Denmark
11:00 PM
Ghost Hunters International, Season 2.9 -- Hamlet's Castle: Denmark


THURS., 6 JAN
12:00 AM
Ghost Hunters International -- The Spirit Of Robin Hood


FRI., 7 JAN
08:30 AM
Merlin, Season 2(series)  Beauty And The Beast - Part 1
09:30 AM
Merlin, Season 2(series)  Beauty And The Beast - Part 2
10:30 AM
Merlin, Season 2(series)  The Witchfinder
11:30 AM
Merlin, Season 2(series)  The Sins Of The Father
12:30 PM
Merlin, Season 2(series)  The Lady Of The Lake
01:30 PM
Merlin, Season 2(series)  Sweet Dreams
02:30 PM
Merlin, Season 2(series)  The Witch's Quickening
03:30 PM
Merlin, Season 2(series)  The Fires Of Idirsholas
04:30 PM
Merlin, Season 2(series)  The Last Dragonlord
10:00 PM
Merlin, Season 3 --  The Tears Of Uther Pendragon - Part 1


SAT., 8 JAN
12:00 AM
Merlin, Season 3 -- The Tears Of Uther Pendragon - Part 1
03:00 AM
Movie  -- Merlin And The War Of The Dragons


FRI., 14 JAN
10:00 PM
Merlin, Season 3 -- The Tears Of Uther Pendragon - Part 2
11:00 PM
Stargate SG-1 -- Arthur's Mantle


SAT., 15 JAN
12:00 AM
Merlin, Season 3 -- The Tears Of Uther Pendragon - Part 2
01:00 AM
Stargate SG-1 -- Crusade


SUN., 16 JAN
07:00 PM
Movie -- Underworld
09:30 PM
Movie -- Underworld: Evolution


MON., 17 JAN
4:30 PM
Movie -- Underworld
07:00 PM
Movie -- Underworld: Evolution


WEDNES., 19 JAN
03:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie -- Book Of Beasts, The


FRI., 21 JAN
10:00 PM
Merlin, Season 3 -- Goblin's Gold


SAT., 22 JAN
12:00 AM
Merlin, Season 3 -- Goblin's Gold
01:00 AM
Stargate SG-1 -- Camelot


SUN., 23 JAN
11:30 AM
Movie -- In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
02:00 PM
Movie -- Eragon


MON., 24 JAN
12:00 AM
Movie -- Highlander: The Source
10:00 AM
Movie -- Eragon


FRI., 28 JAN
10:00 PM
Merlin, Season 3 -- Gwaine


SAT., 29 JAN
12:00 AM
Merlin, Season 3 -- Gwaine
03:00 AM
Movie -- Rise Of The Gargoyles




Also airing this month: Highlander.

Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination -- New from Boydell & Brewer

Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination 
Edited by David Clark and Nicholas Perkins

Details
First Published: 21 Oct 2010
13 Digit ISBN: 9781843842514
Pages: 302
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: D.S.Brewer
Series: Medievalism
Subject: Medieval Literature
BIC Class: DSBB

Britain's pre-Conquest past and its culture continues to fascinate modern writers and artists. From Henry Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader to Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, and from high modernism to the musclebound heroes of comic book and Hollywood, Anglo-Saxon England has been a powerful and often unexpected source of inspiration, antagonism, and reflection. The essays here engage with the ways in which the Anglo-Saxons and their literature have been received, confronted, and re-envisioned in the modern imagination. They offer fresh insights on established figures, such as W.H. Auden, J.R.R. Tolkien, and David Jones, and on contemporary writers such as Geoffrey Hill, Peter Reading, P.D. James, and Heaney. They explore the interaction between text, image and landscape in medieval and modern books, the recasting of mythic figures such as Wayland Smith, and the metamorphosis of Beowulf into Grendel - as a novel and as grand opera. The early medieval emerges not simply as a site of nostalgia or anxiety in modern revisions, but instead provides a vital arena for creativity, pleasure, and artistic experiment.


Contents (from WorldCAT):

Introduction / Nicholas Perkins and David Clark --
From Heorot to Hollywood : Beowulf in its third millennium / Chris Jones --
Priming the poets : the making of Henry Sweet's Anglo-Saxon reader / Mark Atherton --
Owed to both sides : W.H. Auden's double debt to the literature of the North / Heather O'Donoghue --
Writing for an Anglo-Saxon audience in the twentieth century : J.R.R. Tolkien's Old English chronicles / Maria Artamonova --
Wounded men and wounded trees : David Jones and the Anglo-Saxon culture tangle / Anna Johnson --
Basil Bunting, Briggflatts, Lindisfarne, and Anglo-Saxon interlace / Clare A. Lees --
Boom : seeing Beowulf in pictures and print / Siân Echard --
Window in the wall : looking for grand opera in John Gardner's Grendel / Allen J. Frantzen --
Re-placing masculinity : the DC Comics Beowulf series and its context, 1975-6 / Catherine A.M. Clarke --
P.D. James reads Beowulf / John Halbrooks --
Ban Welondes : Wayland Smith in popular culture / Maria Sachiko Cecire --
Overlord of the M5 : the superlative structure of sovereignty in Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns / Hannah J. Crawforth --
The absent Anglo-Saxon past in Ted Hughes's Elmet / Joshua Davies --
Resurrecting Saxon things : Peter Reading, "species decline", and Old English poetry / Rebecca Anne Barr.

Thor Movie Trailer

Marvel has recently released the trailer for the upcoming Thor film. It can be viewed at The Medieval Comics Project Blog.

Coming Soon from McFarland: Harty's Vikings on Film

The Vikings on Film: Essays on Depictions of the Nordic Middle Ages 
Edited by Kevin J. Harty
ISBN 978-0-7864-6044-1
illustrations, filmography, bibliography, index
softcover (7 x 10) 2011
Price: $38.00

Not Yet Published, Available Spring/Summer 2011

Description
Factual and fanciful tales of the Nordic warriors known as Vikings have proven irresistible to filmmakers for nearly a century. Diverse, prominent actors from Kirk Douglas, Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier to Tim Robbins and John Cleese, and noted directors, including Richard Fleischer, Clive Donner and Terry Jones, have all lent their talents to Viking-related films. These fourteen essays on films dealing with the Viking era discuss American, British and European productions. Analyzed in detail are such films as The Vikings (1958), The Long Ships (1964), Alfred the Great (1969), Erik the Viking (1989) and Outlander (2008), as well as a pair of comic-strip adaptations, the live-action Prince Valiant (1997) and the animated Asterix and the Vikings (2006). A comprehensive filmography is also included.

About the Author
Kevin J. Harty is professor and chair of English at La Salle University in Philadelphia and associate editor of Arthuriana, the official journal of the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society, of which he is the vice president. He is the author or editor of eleven books on film and medieval studies.

Getting Medieval with the Doctor

The following appear in a new book from Kitsune Books:

Burdge, Anthony S. “The Professor’s Lessons for the Doctor: The Doctor’s Sub-Creative Journey Toward Middle-earth.” In The Mythological Dimensions of Doctor Who. Eds. Anthony S. Burdge, Jessica Burke, and Kristine Larsen. Crawfordville, FL: Kitsune Books, 2010. Pp. 65-84.

Burke, Jessica. “Doctor Who and the Valkyrie Tradition, Part 2: Goddesses, Battle-demons, Witches, & Wives.” In The Mythological Dimensions of Doctor Who. Eds. Anthony S. Burdge, Jessica Burke, and Kristine Larsen. Crawfordville, FL: Kitsune Books, 2010. Pp. 140-83.

Larsen, Kristine. “Doctor Who and the Valkyrie Tradition Part 1: The Valiant Child and the Bad Wolf.” In The Mythological Dimensions of Doctor Who. Eds. Anthony S. Burdge, Jessica Burke, and Kristine Larsen. Crawfordville, FL: Kitsune Books, 2010. Pp. 120-39.

Syfy December 2010 Listings

Here are this month's medieval-themed listings for Syfy:


MON, 6 DEC
09:00 PM
Movie
National Treasure


THURS., 9 DEC
02:00 AM
Stargate SG-1
Avalon - Pt 1


FRI, 10 DEC
02:00 AM
Stargate SG-1
Avalon - Pt 2

09:00 AM
Movie
Merlin - Part One
11:00 AM
Movie
Merlin - Part Two


SUN, 12 DEC
06:00 PM
Movie
Eragon
08:00 PM
Movie
Chronicles Of Narnia, The: Prince Caspian
11:00 PM
Movie
In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale


MON, 13 DEC
03:30 AM
Syfy Original Movie
Grendel

08:00 AM
Merlin
The Dragon's Call
09:00 AM
Merlin
Valiant
10:00 AM
Merlin
The Mark Of Nimueh
11:00 AM
Merlin
The Poison Chalice
12:00 PM
Merlin
Lancelot
01:00 PM
Merlin
A Remedy To Cure All Ills
02:00 PM
Merlin
The Gates Of Avalon
03:00 PM
Merlin
The Beginning Of The End


TUES, 14 DEC
08:30 AM
Joan Of Arcadia
Do The Math
09:30 AM
Joan Of Arcadia
Anonymous
10:30 AM
Joan Of Arcadia
Vanity, Thy Name Is Human
11:30 AM
Joan Of Arcadia
The Gift
12:30 PM
Joan Of Arcadia
Silence
01:30 PM
Joan Of Arcadia
Only Connect
02:30 PM
Joan Of Arcadia
Out Of Sight
03:30 PM
Joan Of Arcadia
Back To The Garden


THURS, 16 DEC
11:30 PM
Movie
Highlander: The Source


FRI, 17 DEC
03:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie
Dragon Storm


WEDNES, 22 DEC
11:00 AM
Ghost Hunters International
The Spirit Of Robin Hood


THURS, 23 DEC
08:00 PM
Movie Marathon
Chronicles Of Narnia, The: Prince Caspian


FRI, 24 DEC
01:30 AM
Movie Marathon
Chronicles Of Narnia, The: Prince Caspian


SUN, 26DEC
08:00 PM
Movie
National Treasure


MON, 27 DEC
05:00 PM
Movie
National Treasure


Also airing: Highlander and Warehouse 13.

Chiller December 2010 Listings

Here are this month's medieval-themed offerings from Chiller:


THURS., 2 DEC
09:00 AM
Forever Knight Beyond The Law
10:00 AM
Forever Knight The Fix
11:00 AM
Forever Knight Be My Valentine
12:00 PM
Forever Knight The Fire Inside
01:00 PM
Forever Knight Blood Money
02:00 PM
Forever Knight Partners Of The Month


TUES, 14 DEC
11:00 AM
Dark Realm Castle Keep
10:00 PM
Movie The Forsaken [A vampire film featuring vampires that originate during the First Crusade. More details at Wikipedia.]


WEDNES, 15 DEC
02:00 AM
Movie The Forsaken


FRI, 17 DEC
06:00 AM
The Twilight Zone The Last Defender Of Camelot [Based on the short story be Roger Zelazny.]
03:00 PM
The Twilight Zone The Last Defender Of Camelot


SUN, 19 DEC
09:00 AM
Special Illuminating Angels And Demons
12:00 PM
Special Illuminating Angels And Demons


MON, 27 DEC
10:00 PM
Movie The Forsaken


TUES, 27 DEC
02:00 AM
Movie The Forsaken

CFP: Medieval Film/TV/Electronic Games (12/31/10; Plymouth State Medieval and Renaissance Forum 4/14-16/11)

The Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages invites paper proposals to round out a panel devoted to the topic of medievalism in film, TV, and/or electronic games for the 2011 Plymouth State Medieval and Renaissance Forum to be held at Plymouth State University, Plymouth, New Hampshire, from 15-16 April 2011. Please submit paper proposals to the Conference Committee at Popular.Culture.and.the.Middle.Ages@gmail.com by 31 December 2010.

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