I meant to post this earlier. The book is due out in December in time for MLA:
Finke, Laurie, and Martin B. Shichtman. Cinematic Illuminations: The Middle Ages on Film. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Contents:
Theory and methods of cinematic medievalism. Traverse the fantasy: screening the Middle Ages -- Signs of the medieval -- Celluloid history -- The politics of cinematic medievalism. Mirror of princes: representations of political authority in medieval films -- Politics of hagiography: Joan of Arc on the screen -- Hagiography of politics: mourning in America -- The Crusades: war of the cross or God's own bloodbath -- Cinematic medievalism and the anxieties of modernity -- Looking awry at the grail: mourning becomes modernity -- Rape and disease as figures for social anomie -- Forever young: the teen Middle Ages.
Source: WorldCat. (Thanks to Marty for confirming the publication date).
Welcome to home page of the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, a community of scholars and enthusiasts organized to promote and foster research and discussion of representations of the medieval in post-medieval popular culture and mass media. Encompassing material produced from the close of the Middle Ages to today, these medievalisms can be categorized as survivals, revivals, or re-creations of the medieval in post-medieval eras.
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