Welcome to the official blog of The Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages (a.k.a. PCMA). The society maintains a series of web sites and listservs devoted to furthering our aims of promoting research in and teaching of representations of the medieval in post-medieval popular culture and mass media.
The following represents PCMA's presence at this year's International Congress on Medieval Studies, which runs from 7-10 May 2009. The complete program and registration information is available at online at the home page of WMU's Medieval Institute.
Michael Torregrossa,
Blog Editor, The Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Co-Founder, The Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2009
SESSION 109 (1:30 PM; SANGREN 2502)
Medievalisms at War I
Sponsor: Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa, Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Presider: Carl James Grindley, Hostos Community College, CUNY
Richard the Lionheart in Films and Television about the Third Crusade
Lorraine Kochanske Stock, Univ. of Houston
Contextualizing King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942): The Matter of Britain as World War II Propaganda
Michael A. Torregrossa
"A Sport and an End": Militarism in Tolkien's and Jackson's Versions of The Lord of the Rings
Mary R. Bowman, Univ. of Wisconsin–Stevens Point [CORRECTED]
Patterns of Violence, Decay, and Redemption in Filmic Beowulfs and Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund's Cidade de Deus (2002)
Aaron Mercier, Ohio State Univ.
THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2009
SESSION 165 (3:30 PM; SANGREN 2502)
Medievalisms at War II
Sponsor: Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa, Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Presider: Mikee Delony, Abilene Christian Univ.
"Let's Get Ready to Rumble": Arming the Knight in Contemporary Film
Carl James Grindley, Hostos Community College, CUNY
Medieval Culture in Japanese-Designed Video Games
Matthew Greenberg, Abilene Christian Univ.
The Red Baron and Medieval Chivalry
Joseph M. Sullivan, Univ. of Oklahoma
A New Chivalry for a More Civilized Age: T. H. White's The Once and Future King
Caroline Womack, Washtenaw Community College
THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2009
SESSION 188 (7:30 PM; BERNHARD 208)
Getting Medieval on Popular Culture in the Classroom: Pedagogy and Medievalism (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa, Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Presider: Laura Blunk, Cuyahoga Community College
American Medieval: Teaching Popular Medievalism as Modern National Narrative
Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Angelo State Univ.
Teaching the Medieval Monstrous: Cinematic Grendel and the Green Knight
Lorraine Kochanske Stock, Univ. of Houston
Hunting Alchemy: Using Anime in the Graduate Seminar
Candace Gregory-Abbott, California State Univ.–Sacramento
Breaking the Waves: Margery Kempe Goes South
Jenny Adams, Univ. of Massachusetts
Web 2.0 and the "Medieval" Classroom
Carl James Grindley, Hostos Community College, CUNY
Teaching the Middle Ages in the Twenty-First-Century "Smart" Classroom
Mikee Delony, Abilene Christian Univ.
SATURDAY, 10 MAY 2009
BUSINESS MEETING (12:30 PM; VALLEY II 203)
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