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
