Kline's Digital Gaming Re-imagines the Middle Ages Now in Paperback

Routledge has recently released Daniel T. Kline's collection Digital Gaming Re-imagines the Middle Ages (2014) in a more affordable paperback edition. 

I originally posted on the book in 2013. This post serves as an update. 


Digital Gaming Re-imagines the Middle Ages
https://www.routledge.com/Digital-Gaming-Re-imagines-the-Middle-Ages-1st-Edition/Kline/p/book/9780415630917

Edited by Daniel T. Kline
Routledge
298 pages

Purchasing Options:$ = USD

Paperback: 9781138548572
pub: 2018-02-05
$51.95

Hardback: 9780415630917
pub: 2013-08-06
$160.00

eBook (VitalSource) : 9780203097236
pub: 2013-09-11


Description

Digital gaming’s cultural significance is often minimized much in the same way that the Middle Ages are discounted as the backward and childish precursor to the modern period. Digital Gaming Reimagines the Middle Ages challenges both perceptions by examining how the Middle Ages have persisted into the contemporary world via digital games as well as analyzing how digital gaming translates, adapts, and remediates medieval stories, themes, characters, and tropes in interactive electronic environments. At the same time, the Middle Ages are reinterpreted according to contemporary concerns and conflicts, in all their complexity. Rather than a distinct time in the past, the Middle Ages form a space in which theory and narrative, gaming and textuality, identity and society are remediated and reimagined. Together, the essays demonstrate that while having its roots firmly in narrative traditions, neomedieval gaming—where neomedievalism no longer negotiates with any reality beyond itself and other medievalisms—creates cultural palimpsests, multiply-layered trans-temporal artifacts. Digital Gaming Re-imagines the Middle Ages demonstrates that the medieval is more than just a stockpile of historically static facts but is a living, subversive presence in contemporary culture.


Table of Contents

Introduction: "All Your History Are Belong to Us": Digital Gaming Re-imagines the Middle Ages - Daniel T. Kline

Part 1: Prehistory of Medieval Gaming
1. The Right to Dream of the Middle Ages: Simulating the Medieval in Tabletop RPGs - William J. White

Part 2: Gaming Re-imagines Medieval Traditions
2. "Best and Only Bulwark": How Epic Narrative Redeems Beowulf the Game - Candace Barrington and Timothy English
3. Systematizing Culture in Medievalism: Geography, Dynasty, Culture, and Imperialism in Crusader Kings: Deus Vult - Jason Pitruzzello
4. The Portrayal of Medieval Warfare in Medieval: Total War and Medieval 2: Total War - Greg Fedorenko
5. Gabriel Knight: A Twentieth-Century Chivalric Romance Hero - Angela Tenga

Part 3: Case Study 1 – World of Warcraft 
6. Coloring Tension: Medieval and Contemporary Concepts in Classifying and Using Digital Objects in World of Warcraft - Elysse T. Meredith
7. Sir Thomas Malory and the Death Knights of New Avalon: Imagining Medieval Identities in World of Warcraft - Kristen Noone and Jennifer Kavetsky
8. Accumulating Histories: A Social Practice Approach to Medievalism in High Fantasy MMORPGs - Jennifer C. Stone, Peter Kudenov, and Teresa Combs
9. "Awesome Cleavage": The Genred Body in World of Warcraft - Kim Wilkins

Part 4: Case Study 2 – Dante's Inferno, The Game
10. The Game's Two Bodies, or the Fate of Figura in Dante's Inferno - Bruno Lessard
11. Courtly e-Violence, Digital Play: Adapting Medieval Courtly Masculinities in Dante’s Inferno - Oliver Chadwick
12. Shades of Dante: Virtual Bodies in Dante's Inferno - Timothy J. Welsh and John T. Sebastian
13. The Middle Ages in the Depths of Hell: Pedagogical Possibility and the Past in Dante's Inferno - Angela Jane Weisl and Kevin J. Stevens

Part 5: Theoretical and Representational Issues in Medieval Gaming
14. We Will Travel by Map: Maps as Narrative Spaces in Videogames and Medieval Texts - Thomas Rowland
15. Author, Text, and Medievalism in The Elder Scrolls - Michelle DiPietro
16. Technophilia and Technophobia in Online Medieval Fantasy Games - Nick Webber
17. The Consolation of Paranoia: Conspiracy, Epistemology, and the Templars in Assassin's Creed, Deus Ex, and Dragon Age Harry J. Brown

Part 6: Sociality and Social Media in Medieval Gaming
18. Casual Medieval Games, Interactivity, and Social Play in Social Network and Mobile Applications - Serina Patterson


About the Series

Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
This series is our home for innovative research in the field of digital media. It includes monographs and targeted edited collections that provide new insights into this subject as its influence and significance grow into the twenty-first century.


About the Editor

Daniel T. Kline is Professor of English at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, USA.

Tally on Tolkien on Screen

Recently published:

Tally, Robert T. “Three Rings for the Elven-kings: Trilogizing Tolkien in Print and Film.” Mythlore: A Journal of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature, Vol. 36, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2017, 175-90.

The issue is available for purchase at http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-131.htm.

Coming Soon: Vying for the Iron Throne

McFarland continues its line of Game of Thrones books this fall. Contents list to be provided once it becomes available.

Vying for the Iron Throne: Essays on Power, Gender, Death and Performance in HBO’s Game of Thrones 
https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/vying-for-the-iron-throne/
Edited by Lindsey Mantoan and Sara Brady

Not Yet Published: FALL 2018

$35.00
Format:
Pages:
Bibliographic Info: appendix, notes, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2018
pISBN: 978-1-4766-7426-1
eISBN: 978-1-4766-3473-9
Imprint: McFarland

Game of Thrones has changed the landscape of television during an era hailed as the Golden Age of TV. An adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy A Song of Fire and Ice, the HBO series has taken on a life of its own with original plotlines that advance past those of Martin’s books.
The death of protagonist Ned Stark at the end of Season One launched a killing spree in television—major characters now die on popular shows weekly. While many shows kill off characters for pure shock value, death on Game of Thrones produces seismic shifts in power dynamics—and resurrected bodies that continue to fight. This collection of new essays explores how power, death, gender, and performance intertwine in the series.


About the Author(s)

Lindsey Mantoan is assistant professor of theatre at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon.

Sara Brady is associate professor at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York. She is also managing editor of TDR: The Drama Review.

Askey on Game of Thrones

The Journal of Popular Culture is currently allowing open access to articles in its February 2018 number, which includes the following essay on Game of Thrones:

Askey, Brooke. “I'd Rather Have No Brains and Two Balls”: Eunuchs, Masculinity, and Power in Game of Thrones.” The Journal of Popular Culture Volume51, Issue1, Feb. 2018, pp. 50-67, available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jpcu.12647.

Update: Medievalism in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones

One final book notice for the night. Here is the updated information on Shiloh Carroll's Medievalism in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones:


Medievalism in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones
https://boydellandbrewer.com/medievalism-in-i-a-song-of-ice-and-fire-i-and-i-game-of-thrones-i-hb.html
Shiloh Carroll

March 2018
214 pages
21.6x13.8 cm
Medievalism
ISBN: 9781843844846
Format: Hardback
D.S.Brewer


Game of Thrones is famously inspired by the Middle Ages - but how "authentic" is the world it presents? This volume offers different angles to the question.

One of the biggest attractions of George R.R. Martin's high fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, and by extension its HBO television adaptation, Game of Thrones, is its claim to historical realism. The author, the directors and producers of the adaptation, and indeed the fans of the books and show, all lay claim to Westeros, its setting, as representative of an authentic medieval world. But how true are these claims? Is it possible to faithfully represent a time so far removed from our own in time and culture? And what does an authentic medieval fantasy world look like?

This book explores Martin's and HBO's approaches to and beliefs about the Middle Ages and how those beliefs fall into traditional medievalist and fantastic literary patterns. Examining both books and programme from a range of critical approaches - medievalism theory, gender theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory, and race theory - Dr Carroll analyzes how the drive for historical realism affects the books' and show's treatment of men, women, people of colour, sexuality, and imperialism, as well as how the author and showrunners discuss these effects outside the texts themselves.


An e-book version of this title is available (9781787441941), to libraries through a number of trusted suppliers. See here for a full list of our partners.



Table of Contents:

Introduction: Martin and Medievalist Fantasy
Chivalric Romance and Anti-Romance
Masculinity, Femininity, and Gender Relations
Sex and Sexuality
Postcolonialism, Slavery, and the Great White Hope
Adaptation and Reception
Afterword
Bibliography



About the Author:

Shiloh Carroll teaches in the writing center at Tennessee State University.

Now Available: Chivalry in Westeros: The Knightly Code of A Song of Ice and Fire

Out now from McFarland is another new book on the Game of Thrones phenomenon:

Chivalry in Westeros:The Knightly Code of A Song of Ice and Fire
https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/chivalry-in-westeros/
Carol Parrish Jamison

Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Pages: 217
Bibliographic Info: notes, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2018
pISBN: 978-1-4766-7005-8
eISBN: 978-1-4766-3316-9
Imprint: McFarland
$35.00


About the Book:

George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire has sparked a renewed interest in things medieval. The pseudo-historical world of Westeros delights casual fans while offering a rich new perspective for medievalists and scholars.

This study explores how Martin crafts a chivalric code that intersects with and illuminates well known medieval texts, including both romance and heroic epics. Through characters such as Brienne of Tarth, Sandor Clegane and Jaime Lannister, Martin variously challenges, upholds and deconstructs chivalry as depicted in the literature of the Middle Ages.



Table of Contents:

Preface 1
One • An Introduction to Westerosi Chivalry 7
Two • Chivalry in Oral Tradition 25
Three • Chivalry in Written Tradition 44
Four • Franchise 62
Five • Loyalty 89
Six • Prowess 114
Seven • Vengeance 141
Eight • Peace Weaving 160
Conclusions: Teaching Westeros 182
Chapter Notes 191
Bibliography 201
Index 207


About the Author:

Carol Parrish Jamison is a professor of English at Georgia Southern University, Armstrong Campus, in Savannah, Georgia. She specializes in medieval literature, linguistics, and medievalism.

Coming Soon: Fan Phenomena: Game of Thrones

Due out later this year. No contents available yet.

Fan Phenomena: Game of Thrones
Edited by Kavita Mudan Finn
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=5247/
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/F/bo26237077.html

Price £28.50, $41
267 pages; 27 color plates; 7 x 9

Winter is coming. Every Sunday night, millions of fans gather around their televisions to take in the spectacle that is a new episode of Game of Thrones. Much is made of who will be gruesomely murdered each week on the hit show, though sometimes the question really is who won’t die a fiery death. The show, based on the Song of Ice and Fire series written by George R. R. Martin, is a truly global phenomenon.

With the seventh season of the HBO series in production, Game of Thrones has been nominated for multiple awards, its cast has been catapulted to celebrity, and references to it proliferate throughout popular culture. Often positioned as the grittier antithesis to J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Martin’s narrative focuses on the darker side of chivalry and heroism, stripping away these higher ideals to reveal the greed, amorality, and lust for power underpinning them.

Fan Phenomena: Game of Thrones is an exciting new addition to the Intellect series, bringing together academics and fans of Martin’s universe to consider not just the content of the books and HBO series, but fan responses to both. From trivia nights dedicated to minutiae to forums speculating on plot twists to academics trying to make sense of the bizarre climate of Westeros, everyone is talking about Game of Thrones. Edited by Kavita Mudan Finn, the book focuses on the communities created by the books and television series and how these communities envision themselves as consumers, critics, and even creators of fanworks in a wide variety of media, including fiction, art, fancasting, and cosplay.

New Book: Fan Phenomena: The Lord of the Rings

Fan Phenomena: The Lord of the Rings
Edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=5159/
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/F/bo22230364.html

ISBN: 9781783205158 1783205156
156 pages; illustrated in color throughout; 6 1/2 x 9 1/2; © 2015

Now Available

Price £28.50, $41

Few if any books come close to being as beloved—or as ubiquitous—as J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Best-sellers for decades, they became even more popular on the heels of Peter Jackson’s Oscar-winning film adaptations. And throughout, fans have not only read the books, they’ve engaged with them, building one of the most active and creative fan communities in the world.

This entry in the Fan Phenomena series offers the best look we’ve had yet at the fan culture surrounding The Lord of the Rings. Academically informed, but written for the general reader, the book delves into such topics as the philosophy of the series and its fans, the distinctions between the films’ fans and the books’ fans, the process of adaptation, the role of New Zealand in the translation of words to images (and the resulting Lord of the Rings tourism), and much, much more. Lavishly illustrated, it is guaranteed to appeal to anyone who has ever closed the last page of The Return of the King and wished the journey didn't have to end.

Part of the Fan Phenomena series

Introduction
Lorna Piatti-Farnell

Making Fantasy Matter: The Lord of the Rings and the Legitimization of Fantasy Cinema
Alexander Sergeant

The Lord of the Rings:
One Digital Fandom to Initiate Them All
Maggie Parke

Reforging the Rings: Fan Edits and The Cinematic Middle-earth
Joshua Wille

Walking Between Two Lands, or How Double Canon Works in the Lord of the Rings Fan Films
Miguel Ángel  Pérez-Gómez

One Party Business: True-fan Celebrations in New Zealand’s Middle-earth
Lorna Piatti-Farnell

There, Here and Back Again: The Search for Middle-earth in Birmingham
Emily M. Gary

Looking for Lothiriel: The Presence of Women in Tolkien Fandom
Cait Coker and Karen Viars

Lord of the Franchise: The Lord of the Rings, IP Rights and Policing Appropriation
Paul Mountfort

Writing the Star: The Lord of the Rings and the Production of Star Narratives
Anna Martin

Understanding Fans’ ‘Precious’: The Impact of the Lord of the Rings Films on the Hobbit Movies
Abigail G. Scheg

Contributor Details

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Battis and Johnston's Mastering the Game of Thrones

Mastering the Game of Thrones: Essays on George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire
Edited by Jes Battis and Susan Johnston

McFarland
Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-9631-0
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4766-1962-0
notes, bibliographies, index
308pp. softcover (6 x 9) 2015
Price: $35.00

About the Book

George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series is a worldwide phenomenon, and the world of Westeros has seen multiple adaptations, from HBO’s acclaimed television series to graphic novels, console games and orchestral soundtracks. This collection of new essays investigates what makes this world so popular, and why the novels and television series are being taught in university classrooms as genre-defining works within the American fantasy tradition. This volume represents the first sustained scholarly treatment of George R.R. Martin’s groundbreaking work, and includes writing by experts involved in the production of the HBO show. The contributors investigate a number of compelling areas, including the mystery of the shape-shifting wargs, the conflict between religions, the origins of the Dothraki language and the sex lives of knights. The significance of fan cultures and their adaptations is also discussed.


Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vi

A Note on Editions ix

Introduction: On Knowing Nothing (Susan Johnston and Jes Battis) 1

Language and Narration
The Languages of Ice and Fire (David J. Peterson) 15
"Sing for your little life": Story, Discourse and Character (Marc Napolitano) 35
What Maesters Knew: Narrating Knowing (Brian Cowlishaw) 57

Histories
"Just songs in the end": Historical Discourses in Shakespeare and Martin (Jessica Walker) 71
Dividing Lines: Frederick Jackson Turner’s Western Frontier and George R.R. Martin’s Northern Wall (Michail Zontos) 92

Philosophies
"All men must serve": Religion and Free Will from the Seven to the Faceless Men (Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow) 113
"Silk ribbons tied around a sword": Knighthood and the Chivalric Virtues in Westeros (Charles H. Hackney) 132

Bodies
Cursed Womb, Bulging Thighs and Bald Scalp: George R.R. Martin’s Grotesque Queen (Karin Gresham) 151
"A thousand bloodstained hands": The Malleability of Flesh and Identity (Beth Kozinsky) 170
A Thousand Westerosi Plateaus: Wargs, Wolves and Ways of Being (T.A. Leederman) 189

Intimacies
Sex and the Citadel: Adapting Same Sex Desire from Martin’s Westeros to HBO’s Bedrooms (David C. Nel) 205
Beyond the Pale? Craster and the Pathological Reproduction of Houses in Westeros (D. Marcel DeCoste) 225

Adaptations
The Hand of the Artist: Fan Art in the Martinverse (Andrew Howe) 243
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies": Transmedia Textuality and the Flows of Adaptation (Zoe Shacklock) 262

About the Contributors 281

Index 285


About the Author(s)

Jes Battis is an associate professor of English at the University of Regina. His teaching and research focus on intersections between fantasy and sexuality as they occur across a number of historical periods, including the middle ages and the eighteenth century. He is also the author of the Occult Special Investigator series, with Ace Books. Susan Johnston is an associate professor of English at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada, where her courses include George R.R. Martin, J.K. Rowling, and literary historiography and theory.

Frankel's Women in Game of Thrones: Power, Conformity and Resistance

Sorry to have missed this over the summer:

Women in Game of Thrones: Power, Conformity and Resistance
Valerie Estelle Frankel
McFarland

Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-9416-3
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4766-1554-7
appendices, glossary, bibliography, index
216pp. softcover (6 x 9) 2014
Price: $35.00

About the Book

Game of Thrones, one of the hottest series on television, leaves hundreds of critics divided on how “feminist” the show really is. Certainly the female characters, strong and weak, embody a variety of archetypes—widow queens, warrior women, damsels in distress, career women, priestesses, crones, mothers and maidens. However, the problem is that most of them play a single role without nuance—even the “strong women” have little to do besides strut about as one-note characters. This book analyzes the women and their portrayals one by one, along with their historical inspirations. Accompanying issues in television studies also appear, from the male gaze to depiction of race. How these characters are treated in the series and how they treat themselves becomes central, as many strip for the pleasure of men or are sacrificed as pawns. Some nude scenes or moments of male violence are fetishized and filmed to tantalize, while others show the women’s trauma and attempt to identify with the scene’s female perspective. The key is whether the characters break out of their traditional roles and become multidimensional.


Table of Contents

Introduction 1
Part I: Controversial Issues in the Series 5
Gratuitous Sex? 5
Rape 8
Male Gaze 16
Fake Lesbian Scenes 23
Race 26
Independent Action versus Acting for Others 31
Part II: Exploring Archetypes and Tropes 37
Female Archetypes 37
The Strong Females 40
The Warrior Woman Archetype 43
The Warrior: Arya and Brienne 47
The Bodyguard: Osha and Meera 55
The Pirate: Asha/Yara 58
The Career Woman: Talisa 61
The ­Warrior-Anima 64
The Feminized Females 71
Widows and Mothers: The Chatelaines and Queen Consorts 76
Maidens: The Innocent, the Orphan, and the Femme Fatale 98
The Prostitutes 112
The Crones 121
The Seers 128
Tricksters: The Sand Snakes 139
Great Goddess: The Heart Trees 141
Monstrous Woman: Stoneheart 144
The Hero Queen: Daenerys 147
Part III: Gender Roles in Westeros 161
Women in Westeros 161
Men in the Gender Biased System 167
Women Despise Men by Despising Women 172
Men’s Attitudes Toward Women 174
Fan Reactions 177
Conclusion 182
Appendix 1. Cast 185
Appendix 2. Episode List 188
Appendix 3. Archetypes 190
Works Cited 193
Index 201

About the Author

Valerie Estelle Frankel has been a storyteller, an award-winning novelist, and a lecturer at San Jose State University. The author of four recent books on popular culture and more than 100 stories and essays, she lives in Sunnyvale, California.

Syfy March 2014

One last set for the day. Here are the relevant listings from March 2014:

Note: Incomplete data for 3/1. 

MON., 1 MAR

04:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Rock Monster


SUN, 2 MAR

09:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Dungeons & Dragons: The Book Of Vile Darkness

01:30 PM
Movie: Outlander


MON., 3 MAR

09:00 AM
Movie: Stargate: The Ark Of Truth


TUES., 4 MAR

04:00 PM
Face Off--Dragon's Breath


THURS., 6 MAR

02:30 AM
Dracula 2000

02:30 PM
Dracula 2000


TUES., 11 MAR

03:00 PM
Face Off--Dragon's Breath

10:00 PM
My Big Fat Geek Wedding (Couple has "medieval style wedding".)




WEDNES., 12 MAR

12:00 AM
My Big Fat Geek Wedding

05:30 PM
My Big Fat Geek Wedding


THURS., 13 MAR

04:00 AM
My Big Fat Geek Wedding

12:30 PM
Aladdin and the Death Lamp


SAT., 15 MAR

10:30 AM
My Big Fat Geek Wedding

03:00 AM
My Big Fat Geek Wedding


MON., 17 MAR

04:00 AM
My Big Fat Geek Wedding


TUES., 18 MAR

03:00 AM
My Big Fat Geek Wedding

08:00 AM
Destination Truth--Vampire Monsters; Island of the Damned (vampire sought in Transylvania)

11:00 AM
My Big Fat Geek Wedding

02:00 PM
Face Off--Dragon's Breath

06:00 PM
Face Off--Open Sesame (wizards)


WEDNES., 19 MAR

01:00 AM
Black Forest

06:00 PM
The Ruins (Mayan ruins?)

08:00 PM
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

11:00 PM
The Ruins (??)


THURS., 20 MAR

01:00 PM
Age of Dragons

05:00 PM
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

08:00 PM
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull


FRI., 21 MAR

12:00 AM
My Big Fat Geek Wedding

05:00 PM
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull


SUN., 23 MAR

11:00 AM
My Big Fat Geek Wedding


TUES., 25 MAR

09:00 AM
My Big Fat Geek Wedding

01:00 PM
Face Off: Dragon's Breath

05:00 PM
Face Off: Open Sesame


WEDNES., 26 MAR

01:00 AM
Rise of the Gargoyles

03:00 AM
Reign of the Gargoyles

01:00 PM
Sinbad and the Minotaur

03:00 PM
Reign of the Gargoyles

05:00 PM
Rise of the Gargoyles


FRI., 28 MAR

10:30 AM
Dracula 2000

12:30 PM
Blade II

05:00 PM
Underworld: Evolution

07:00 PM
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans


SAT., 29 MAR [THESE MIGHT BE IN ERROR]

10:30 AM
Dracula 2000

12:30 PM
Blade II

05:00 PM
Underworld: Evolution
07:00 PM
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans


SUN., 30 MAR

03:30 AM
Dracula 2000

02:30 PM
Underworld: Evolution
04:30 PM
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans


MON., 31 MAR

02:00 PM
Blade II

Syfy February 2014

Jumping forwards a few months, here are the listings from Syfy from February:

TUES., 4 FEB

08:00 PM
Face Off: Dragon's Breath


TUES., 11 FEB

07:00 PM
Face Off: Dragon's Breath


SAT., 15 FEB

11:00 PM
Movie: X-men 2: X-men United [undeveloped Arthurian reference]


SUN., 16 FEB

10:00 AM
Movie: Outlander

04:00 PM
Movie: X-men 2: X-men United


MON., 17 FEB

11:00 PM
Movie: Outlander


TUES., 18 FEB

01:00 PM
Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files: Glowing Gargoyle/phantom Feline
02:00 PM
Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files: Florida Woodland Ufo/black Forest Entity (not medieval)
[Wrong "Black Forest": see link for details  http://www.syfy.com/factorfaked/episodes/season/2/episode/220/florida_woodland_ufo_black_forest_entity]

06:00 PM
Face Off: Dragon's Breath


THURS., 20 FEB

11:00 PM
Syfy Original Movie: Dungeons & Dragons: The Book Of Vile Darkness


FRI., 21 FEB

01:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Beyond Sherwood Forest

03:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Dragon Dynasty

08:30 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Dragon Dynasty

10:30 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Beyond Sherwood Forest

12:30 PM
Syfy Original Movie: Dungeons & Dragons: The Book Of Vile Darkness


TUES., 25 FEB

05:00 PM
Face Off: Dragon's Breath


THURS., 27 FEB

07:00 PM
Movie: Underworld: Evolution
09:00 PM
Movie: Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans


FRI., 28 FEB

01:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Rise Of The Gargoyles
03:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Reign Of The Gargoyles

09:00 AM
Movie: Dracula 2000

03:00 PM
Movie: Underworld: Evolution
05:00 PM
Movie: Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans

Sesame Street Meets Middle-earth

Here's a cute mash-up that first aired last December:

CFP Game of Thrones Panel (5/15/14; PAMLA 10/31-11/2/14)

UPDATE - panel on "Game of Thrones," DEADLINE EXTENDED to May 15

full name / name of organization:
Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association
contact email:
ahowe@lasierra.edu

PANEL ON "GAME OF THRONES"
Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association
10/31 - 11/2, 2014
abstracts due May 15

This panel, accepted for the annual conference of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA), accepts proposals for papers from any perspective or theoretical focus on George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series or its HBO television adaptation "Game of Thrones," or any other aspect of this fictional world (Dunk & Egg, etc).

Submission Deadline: May 15 (extended). Please submit your proposal via the PAMLA website: www.pamla.org/2014

For questions about the session, please contact Andrew Howe at ahowe@lasierra.edu

PAMLA's 2014 conference will be held Friday, October 31 through Sunday, November 2, at the Riverside Convention Center in Riverside, California. More information is available at the PAMLA website, www.pamla.org/2014


By web submission at 04/05/2014 - 10:38

Syfy August 2013

Continuing with the backlog, here are the listings from Syfy from last August:

Missed data for Sunday, 4 August.

THURS., 1 AUG

03:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Dark Relic


SAT., 3 AUG
09:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Rise Of The Gargoyles
11:00 AM
Sinbad, Season 1: Pilot
12:00 PM
Sinbad, Season 1: Queen Of The Water-thieves
01:00 PM
Sinbad, Season 1: House Of Games
02:00 PM
Sinbad, Season 1: Old Man Of The Sea
03:00 PM
Sinbad, Season 1: Hunted
04:00 PM
Sinbad, Season 1: The Siren
05:00 PM
Sinbad, Season 1: Homecoming
06:00 PM
Sinbad, Season 1: Kuji
07:00 PM
Sinbad, Season 1: Eye Of The Tiger
08:00 PM
Sinbad, Season 1: For Whom The Egg Shatters
09:00 PM
Sinbad, Season 1: Fiend Or Friend?
10:00 PM
Sinbad, Season 1: Land Of The Dead


TUESDAY, 6 AUG
02:00 AM
Sinbad, Season 1: Fiend Or Friend?
03:00 AM
Sinbad, Season 1: Land Of The Dead


SUN., 11 AUG
01:30 PM
Movie: Outlander


MON., 12 AUG
09:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Black Forest

08:00 PM
Movie: Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade


TUES., 13 AUG
08:00 AM
Face Off: Make It Reign


WEDNES., 14 AUG
02:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Almighty Thor


THURS., 15 AUG
05:00 PM
Movie: Chronicles Of Narnia, The: Prince Caspian

11:00 PM
Movie: Chronicles Of Narnia, The: Prince Caspian


FRI., 16 AUG
01:00 PM
Syfy Original Movie: Sinbad And The Minotaur


SAT., 17 AUG
11:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Rock Monster


SAT., 24 AUG
11:30 AM
Movie: In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale


SUN., 25 AUG
05:00 PM
Movie: Underworld: Evolution
07:00 PM
Movie: Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans


MON., 26 AUG
02:30 PM
Movie: Underworld: Evolution
04:30 PM
Movie: Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans


WEDNES., 28 AUG
01:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Beauty And The Beasts: A Dark Tale


SAT., 31 AUG
09:00 AM
Movie: Dracula 2000

Syfy July 2013

Four more to go. Here are the listings from Syfy for last July:

TUES., 2 JULY
2:00 AM
Sinbad: Old Man of the Sea

09:00 AM
Face Off: Make It Reign


SAT., 6 JULY
04:00 PM
Sinbad, Season 1: Pilot
05:00 PM
Sinbad, Season 1: Queen Of The Water-thieves
06:00 PM
Sinbad, Season 1: House Of Games
07:00 PM
Sinbad, Season 1: Old Man Of The Sea
09:00 PM
Sinbad, Season 1: Hunted


SUN., 7 JULY
01:00 AM
Movie: Dragonquest
03:00 AM
Movie: Merlin And The War Of The Dragons

09:00 AM
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

04:00 PM
Outlander


THURS., 11 JULY
01:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Witchville


SAT., 13 JULY
05:00 PM
Movie: Chronicles Of Narnia, The: Prince Caspian

08:00 PM
Sinbad, Season 1: Hunted
09:00 PM
Sinbad, Season 1: The Siren
 
11:00 PM
Movie: Chronicles Of Narnia, The: Prince Caspian


SUN., 14 JULY
02:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Sinbad And The Minotaur
04:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Jabberwock

09:30 AM
Movie: Almighty Thor (2011)


MON., 15 JULY
03:30 AM
Movie: Grendel (2005)


TUES., 16 JULY
02:00 AM
Sinbad, Season 1: The Siren

03:00 PM
Destination Truth: Vampire Monsters/island Of The Damned


SAT., 20 JULY
08:00 PM
Sinbad, Season 1: The Siren
09:00 PM
Sinbad, Season 1: Homecoming


SUN., 21 JULY
10:00 PM
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy vs. Dracula (2000)


TUES., 23 JULY
02:00 AM
Sinbad, Season 1: Homecoming


FRI., 26 JULY
09:30 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Almighty Thor


SUN., 28 JULY
03:00 PM
Syfy Original Movie: Thor: Hammer Of The Gods

07:00 PM
Movie: Underworld: Evolution
09:00 PM
Movie: Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans


MON., 29 JULY
01:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Thor: Hammer Of The Gods

03:00 PM
Movie: Underworld: Evolution
05:00 PM
Movie: Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans


TUES., 30 JULY
10:00 PM
Face Off: Make It Reign
11:00 PM
Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files: Glowing Gargoyle/phantom Feline

Syfy June 2013

More Syfy backlog. Here are the listings for last June:

SAT., 8 JUNE

09:00 AM
Dragon Dynasty

01:00 PM
Fire & Ice

05:00 PM
Age of Dragons

09:00 PM
Sinbad (series premiere)


SUN., 9 JUNE
01:00 AM
Riverworld

03:00 AM
Riverworld-Part 2

11:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie : Wyvern


FRI., 14 JUNE
02:00 PM
Syfy Original Movie: Almighty Thor
04:00 PM
Syfy Original Movie : Thor: Hammer Of The Gods


SAT., 15 JUNE
08:00 PM
Sinbad, Season 1: Pilot
09:00 PM
Sinbad, Season 1: Queen Of The Water-thieves


SUN., 16 JUNE
09:00 AM
Sinbad, Season 1: Queen Of The Water-thieves

08:00 PM
Movie: Chronicles Of Narnia, The: Prince Caspian


MON., 17 JUNE
08:30 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Beyond Sherwood Forest
10:30 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Black Forest

05:00 PM
Movie: Chronicles Of Narnia, The: Prince Caspian


TUES., 18 JUNE
02:00 AM
Sinbad, Season 1: Queen Of The Water-thieves


SAT., 22 JUNE
08:00 PM
Sinbad, Season 1: Queen Of The Water-thieves
09:00 PM
Sinbad, Season 1: House Of Games


SUN., 23 JUNE
07:00 PM
Movie: Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans


MON., 24 JUNE
04:00 PM
Movie: Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans


SAT., 29 JUNE
01:00 PM
Syfy Original Movie: Witchslayer Gretl

08:00 PM
Sinbad, Season 1: House Of Games
09:00 PM
Sinbad, Season 1: Old Man Of The Sea

Syfy January 2014

Well, I still haven't finished all of 2013, but here are the relevant listings (a week early, no less) from Syfy for January 2014.


THURS., 2 JAN
11:30 PM
Syfy Original Movie: Witchslayer Gretl

FRI., 3 JAN
03:30 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Witchville

10:00 PM
Movie: X-men 2: X-men United


SAT., 4 JAN
03:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Almighty Thor


SUN., 5 JAN
08:30 PM
Movie: Chronicles Of Narnia: Voyage Of The Dawn Treader
11:00 PM
Syfy Original Movie: Dungeons & Dragons: The Book Of Vile Darkness


MON., 6 JAN
01:00 AM
Movie: Age Of The Dragons
03:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Gryphon

06:00 PM
Movie: Chronicles Of Narnia: Voyage Of The Dawn Treader


WEDNES.,8 JAN
09:00 PM
Movie: Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade


THURS., 9 JAN
08:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Immortal Voyage Of Captain Drake, The
10:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Sinbad And The Minotaur

02:00 PM
Syfy Original Movie: Aladdin And The Death Lamp

06:00 PM
Movie: Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade
09:00 PM
Movie: Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull


FRI., 10 JAN
04:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Aladdin And The Death Lamp

05:00 PM
Movie: Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull


SUN., 19 JAN
11:00 AM
Movie: Dracula 2000

09:00 PM
Movie: Underworld: Evolution


MON., 20 JAN
03:00 AM
Movie: Wes Craven Presents: Dracula II: Ascension

06:00 PM
Movie: Underworld: Evolution


SAT., 25 JAN
04:00 PM
Movie: Outlander

11:00 PM
Movie: Outlander


SUN., 26 JAN
02:30 PM
Movie: League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The


MON., 27 JAN
11:00 AM
Movie: League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The
01:30 PM
Movie: Stargate: The Ark Of Truth


TUES., 28 JAN
09:00 PM
Face Off: Dragon's Breath [premiere]

11:00 PM
Face Off: Dragon's Breath


THURS., 30 JAN
03:00 PM
Movie: In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
05:30 PM
Movie: Chronicles Of Narnia: Voyage Of The Dawn Treader


FRI., 31 JAN
08:00 AM
Movie: In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

01:00 PM
Movie: Chronicles Of Narnia: Voyage Of The Dawn Treader

Syfy December 2013

Continuing from the previous post, here are the relevant listings from Syfy for December 2013.

Lost data 12/9.

SAT., 7 DEC

09:00 AM

Movie: Stargate: The Ark Of Truth

03:30 PM

Movie: Outlander

SUN., 8 DEC

12:00 AM

Movie: Outlander

TUES., 10 DEC

10:00 PM

Killer Contact: Vlad The Impaler: Dracula [premiere]

WEDNES., 11 DEC

12:00 AM

Killer Contact: Vlad The Impaler: Dracula

01:00 AM

Syfy Original Movie: Gryphon

03:00 AM

Movie: Book Of Beasts, The

07:00 PM

Killer Contact: Vlad The Impaler: Dracula

10:00 PM

Killer Contact: Lucrezia Borgia [premiere] 

THURS., 12 DEC

12:00 AM

Killer Contact: Lucrezia Borgia

03:00 AM

Syfy Original Movie: Beyond Sherwood Forest

03:00 PM

Syfy Original Movie: Rock Monster

05:00 PM

Syfy Original Movie: Dungeons & Dragons: The Book Of Vile Darkness

11:30 PM

Syfy Original Movie

Dungeons & Dragons: The Book Of Vile Darkness

FRI., 13 DEC

01:30 AM

Syfy Original Movie: Rock Monster

SAT., 14 DEC

Dec 14

07:00 PM

Movie: Underworld: Evolution

SUN., 15 DEC

05:00 PM

Movie: Underworld: Evolution

TUES., 17 DEC

01:00 AM

Movie: Dracula 2000

WEDNES., 18 DEC

01:00 PM

Killer Contact: Vlad The Impaler: Dracula

02:00 PM

Killer Contact: Lucrezia Borgia

FRI., 20 DEC

09:00 AM

Syfy Original Movie: Beauty And The Beasts: A Dark Tale

11:00 AM

Syfy Original Movie: Almighty Thor

THURS., 26 DEC

03:00 PM

Syfy Original Movie: Witchslayer Gretl

FRI., 27 DEC

01:00 AM

Syfy Original Movie: Witchslayer Gretl

10:00 PM

Movie: Underworld: Evolution

SAT., 28 DEC

01:30 PM

Movie: Outlander

SUN.,29 DEC

09:00 AM

Movie: Outlander

CFPs PCA/ACA 2014 (11/1/13)

The Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association has published its calls for papers for the 2014 meeting in Chicago. Relevant areas include the following. Click the link for further details:


Medievalism in Popular Culture

Shakespeare on Film and Television

Tolkien Studies - Special Topic – New for 2014!

Adaptation (Film, TV, Lit., & Electronic Gaming)