Contents List for Cinema Medievalia: New Essays on the Reel Middle Ages

McFarland has now posted the contents list for Kevin Harty and Scott Manning's new collection Cinema Medievalia: New Essays on the Reel Middle Ages. You can preorder from https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/cinema-medievalia/.




Preface 1

The Middle Ages, from Real to Reel: An Introduction

Kevin J. Harty and Scott Manning 3

Accidents of Time and Timing: The Seventh Seal (1957) and Black Death (2010)

Dorsey Armstrong 23

The Consolation of Medievalism in Vincent Ward’s The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988)

Helen Young 40

Francis of Assisi: Making a ­Twelfth-Century Saint Accessible to Twentieth–and ­Twenty-First-Century Audiences

Francis Berna 58

The Archbishop and the King: Peter Glenville’s Becket (1964)

Jonathan Good 79

The Book of Joan of Arc on Trial: Dreyer and Bresson

Gail Orgelfinger 97

The Northman’s Place in Viking Film History

Zachary J. Melton 112

“A decadent and ­child-murdering Wali”: The Targeted Racialization of the “Arab Sectarian” in Youssef Chahine’s Saladin the Victorious (1963)

Tirumular (Drew) Narayanan 128

Medieval Scotland on Film: Braveheart and the Scottish Discursive Imaginary

Laura S. Harrison and Andrew B.R. Elliott 145

Making Padanians: Barbarossa (2009) and Repurposing the Myth of the Lombard League

Scott Manning 163

The Illusion of Musical Authenticity in Alexander Nevsky (1938)

John Haines 181

On the Queerness of England’s King John, as Captured in 473 Years of Stage and Screen Portrayals

Tison Pugh 198

The Depths of Dante’s Inferno: An Animated Epic

Karl Fugelso 219

“Nevertheless, she persisted”: Marginalizing the Other at the Intersection of Gender and Race in Fritz Lang’s Film Kriemhilds Rache (Kriemhild’s Revenge)

Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand 234

Marcel Carné’s Les Visiteurs du soir and the Principle of “Included Third”

Raeleen Chai-Elsholz 252

Authenticity, Neoliberalism, and Socialism: The Name of the Rose (1986)

Richard Utz 270

Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel and Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring in Dialog: From Shame Culture to Guilt Culture

Sandra Gorgievski 288

“Are you a woman or a blacksmith?” ­Cross-Sex Friendship Bonds in Brian Helgeland’s A Knight’s Tale

Richard Sévère 307

“Beware the Jabberwock”: Terry Gilliam’s Fractured Fairy Tale

Susan Aronstein and Taran Drummond 325

David Lowery’s The Green Knight (2021): Authenticity and Accuracy, Historicons and Easter Eggs

Kevin J. Harty 343

Bibliography 361

About the Contributors 365

Index 369

Cross-Posted CFP (Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media (proposals by 9/30/2024)

(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media

Co-organizers Michael A. Torregrossa, Karen Casey Casebier, and Carl B. Sell

Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture

Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 30 September 2024

56th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown (Philadelphia, PA)

On-site event: 6-9 March 2025

Rationale

Our conception of the Middle Ages is usually formed by the versions of the medieval past we experienced as children, and, because they are considered suitable for young viewers, animated depictions of this world often represent our earliest exposure to the events, personages, and stories of this era. Consequently, the animated creations of the Walt Disney Company have played a huge part in shaping our collective image of the Middle Ages, but the corpus of medieval-themed animation is truly vast. It has been expanded greatly by the output of many other content producers across the globe through anime, cartoons, films, games, streaming videos, and theatrical shorts. (See our list of representative texts–at https://tinyurl.com/ReAnimatingtheMiddleAgesCFP–for examples.)

Despite animation's important role in shaping how we perceive and receive the medieval past, the field of Medieval Animation Studies remains limited, especially compared to the fluorescence of Medieval Film Studies and Medieval Television Studies over the past four decades. In this panel, we seek in particular to build upon the pioneering work of medieval-animation scholar Michael N. Salda and provide additional insights into the ways medieval-themed animation has impacted our contemporary world. Presenters might explore anime, cartoons, films, games, shorts, and videos produced through traditional ink-and-paint, stop-motion, claymation, or computer-generated imagery. Selections should represent and/or engage with some aspect of the medieval, such as artifacts, characters, settings, themes, etc. These might be central to the narrative, tangential, or appearing solely as cameos. (For ideas and support, we have created a list of representative texts and a resource guide devoted to studies of medieval-themed animation. It can be accessed at https://tinyurl.com/ReAnimatingtheMiddleAgesCFP.) 

Submission Instructions

In this panel, we seek in particular to build upon the pioneering work of medieval-animation scholar Michael N. Salda and provide additional insights into the ways medieval-themed animation has impacted our contemporary world. Presenters might explore anime, cartoons, films, games, shorts, and videos produced through traditional ink-and-paint, stop-motion, claymation, or computer-generated imagery. Selections should represent and/or engage with some aspect of the medieval, such as artifacts, characters, settings, themes, etc., presented as central to the narrative, tangential, or appearing solely as cameos.  

For ideas and support, please see our list of representative texts and resource guide devoted to studies of medieval-themed animation at https://tinyurl.com/ReAnimatingtheMiddleAgesCFP. 

All proposals must be submitted into the CFPList system at https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21105 by 30 September 2024. You will be prompted to create an account with NeMLA (if you do not already have one) and, then, to complete sections on Title, Abstract, and Media Needs. 

Notification on the status of your submission will be made by 16 October 2024. If accepted, NeMLA asks you to confirm your participation with the session chairs by accepting their invitations and by registering for the event. The deadline for Registration/Membership is 9 December 2024.

Be advised of the following policies of the Convention: All participants must be members of NeMLA for the year of the conference. Participants may present on up to two sessions of different types (panels/seminars are considered of the same type). Submitters to the CFP site cannot upload the same abstract twice.(See the NeMLA Presenter Policies page, at https://www.nemla.org/convention/policies.html, for further details,)

NeMLA offers limited funding for travel to graduate students and to contingent faculty, adjunct instructors, independent scholars, and two-year college faculty. Details can be found at the NeMLA Travel Awards page at https://www.nemla.org/awards/travel.html.  

Thank you for your interest in our session. Please address questions and/or concerns to the organizers at MedievalinPopularCulture@gmail.com. 

For more information on the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, please visit our website at https://MedievalinPopularCulture.blogspot.com/.  

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Cinema Medievalia:  New Essays on the Reel Middle Ages

Not Yet Published

$55.00

New 2024 Pre-Order

Available for pre-order / backorder

Edited by Kevin J. Harty and Scott Manning

Format: softcover (7 x 10)

Pages:

Bibliographic Info: ca. 75 photos, notes, bibliography, index

Copyright Date: 2024

pISBN: 978-1-4766-8916-6

eISBN: 978-1-4766-5361-7

Imprint: McFarland