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