Now Streaming on MGM+ - Robin Hood

 A new series based on the Matter of the Greenwood. Streaming on MGM+ - 

Recent Scholarship: Brode and Brode's It's the Disney Version!

 I finally picked up a copy of this intriguing collection. 

It's the Disney Version!: Popular Cinema and Literary Classics

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442266070/It%27s-the-Disney-Version-Popular-Cinema-and-Literary-Classics

Edited by Douglas Brode and Shea T. Brode

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 254 • Trim: 6 x 9 

 

978-1-4422-6606-3 • Hardback • June 2016 • $95.00 • (£73.00)

978-1-4422-6607-0 • eBook • June 2016 • $90.00 • (£69.00) 

 

In 1937, the first full-length animated film produced by Walt Disney was released. Based on a fairy tale written by the Brothers Grimm, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was an instant success and set the stage for more film adaptations over the next several decades. From animated features like and Bambi to live action films such as Mary Poppins, Disney repeatedly turned to literary sources for inspiration—a tradition the Disney studios continues well into the twenty-first century.

In It’s the Disney Version!: Popular Cinema and Literary Classics, Douglas Brode and Shea T. Brode have collected essays that consider the relationship between a Disney film and the source material from which it was drawn. Analytic yet accessible, these essays provide a wide-ranging study of the term “The Disney Version” and what it conveys to viewers. Among the works discussed in this volume are Alice in Wonderland, Mary Poppins, Pinocchio,Sleeping Beauty, Tarzan, and Winnie the Pooh.

In these intriguing essays, contributors to this volume offer close textual analyses of both the original work and of the Disney counterpart. Featuring articles that consider both positive and negative elements that can be found in the studio’s output, It’s the Disney Version!: Popular Cinema and Literary Classics will be of interest to scholars and students of film, as well as the diehard Disney fan.

Contents (from WorldCat):

Introduction: once upon a time at the movies / Douglas Brode --

"And they lived happily ever after?": Disney's animated adaptation of Snow White and the seven dwarfs (1937) and Fleischers' Gulliver's travels / David McGowan --

Marionette as metaphor: Pinocchio and evolving attitudes toward education / Jean-Marie Apostolides --

Here be gay dragons: queer allegory and Disney's The reluctant dragon / Tison Pugh --

Uncle Walt's Uncle Remus: Disney's distortion of Harris's hero / Peggy A. Russo --

"Glory in the flower": Disneyfying Bambi / David Payne --

Through the cinematic looking glass: Walt Disney's 1951 animated Alice and Tim Burton's 2010 film / Sarah Boslaugh --

Walt Disney and Robert Louis Stevenson: Haskin's Treasure island or Stevenson's Kidnapped? / Scott Allen Nollen --

Of medieval ballads and movie musicals: Walt Disney and the Robin Hood legend / Shea T. Brode with Douglas Brode --

"Do you believe in fairies?": Peter Pan, Walt Disney, and me / Elizabeth Bell --

"In God's good time": Walt Disney and 1950s Cold War culture / Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper --

Perchance to dream: a narrative analysis of Disney's Sleeping beauty / Alexis Finnerty with Douglas Brode --

"It's a jungle out there, kid!": Walt Disney and the American 1960s / Greg Metcalf --

"Higitus! figitus!": of Merlin and Disney magic / Susan Aronstein --

"This is not the Mary Poppins I know!": P.L. Travers goes to Hollywood / David S. and Olga Silverman --

The wonderful worlds of Dickens and Disney: animated adaptations of Oliver Twist and A Christmas carol / Shari Hodges Holt --

The tao at Pooh corner: Disney's portrayal of a very philosophical bear / Anne Collins Smith and Owen M. Smith --

From icon to Disneyfication: a mermaid's aesthetic journey / Finn Hauberg Mortensen --

Pocahontas as Disney princess: history, legend, literature, and movie mythology / Kathy Merlock Jackson and Gary Edgerton --

"Driven to sin": Victor Hugo's complex vision of humanity in Disney's The hunchback of Notre Dame / Michael Smith --

The integrity of an ape-man: Burroughs, Disney, and the meaning of the Tarzan myth / Stanley A. Galloway.

 

 

Authors:

 

Douglas Brode teaches popular culture at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications, the University of Texas at San Antonio, and Our Lady of the Lake University (also in San Antonio). He has published more than 35 books, including Rod Sterling and The Twilight Zone (2009). He is the coeditor of Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars: An Anthology (2012) and Sex, Politics and Religion in Star Wars: An Anthology (2012), and Dracula’s Daughters: The Female Vampire on Film (2013). Brode is a contributor to the upcoming PBS-TV mini-series: American Masters: Walt Disney. Shea T. Brode has an MA in Literature and Cultural Studies from the University Autonoma in Madrid. Douglas and Shea are the coeditors of The Star Trek Universe: Franchising the Final Frontier (2015) and Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek: The Original Cast Adventures (2015).

Coming Soon from McFarland: Medieval Women on Film

Advance notice:

Medieval Women on Film: Essays on Gender, Cinema and History


https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/medieval-women-on-film/

Not Yet Published

Edited by Kevin J. Harty
Format: softcover (7 x 10)
Pages:
Bibliographic Info: ca. 25 photos, notes, index
Copyright Date: 2020
pISBN: 978-1-4766-6844-4
eISBN: 978-1-4766-3900-0
Imprint: McFarland


In this first ever book-length treatment, 11 scholars with a variety of backgrounds in medieval studies, film studies, and medievalism discuss how historical and fictional medieval women have been portrayed on film and their connections to the feminist movements of the 20th and 21st centuries. From detailed studies of the portrayal of female desire and sexuality, to explorations of how and when these women gain agency, these essays look at the different ways these women reinforce, defy, and complicate traditional gender roles.

Individual essays discuss the complex and sometimes conflicting cinematic treatments of Guinevere, Morgan Le Fay, Isolde, Maid Marian, Lady Godiva, Heloise, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Joan of Arc. Additional essays discuss the women in Fritz Lang’s The Nibelungen, Liv Ullmann’s Kristin Lavransdatter, and Bertrand Tavernier’s La Passion Béatrice.


About the Editor:


Kevin J. Harty, a professor of English at La Salle University in Philadelphia, is associate editor of Arthuriana, the official journal of the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society (of which he is the former president). He has previously written or edited 14 books, including ground-breaking studies of depictions of the Middle Ages on film.

Recent Book: Swashbucklers: The Costume Adventure Series

My apologies for having missed posting this when it came out. It sounds fascinating. Hopefully, a paperback edition will be forthcoming.


Swashbucklers: The Costume Adventure Series
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719088810/

By James Chapman


Book Information

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-7190-8881-0
Pages: 296
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Price: £70.00
Published Date: July 2015
BIC Category: Film and Media, Television, Radio, Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism, The arts / Film, TV & radio

Available for North and South America through Oxford University Press Academic at https://global.oup.com/academic/product/swashbucklers-9780719088810?cc=us&lang=en&#. The US edition is priced currently at $110.


Description

Swashbucklers is the first study of one of the most popular and enduring genres in television history - the costume adventure series. It maps the history of swashbuckling television from its origins in the 1950s to the present. It places the various series in their historical and institutional contexts and also analyses how the form and style of the genre has changed over time. And it includes case studies of major swashbuckling series including The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Buccaneers, Ivanhoe, William Tell, Zorro, Arthur of the Britons, Dick Turpin, Robin of Sherwood, Sharpe, Hornblower, The Count of Monte Cristo and the recent BBC co-production of The Three Musketeers.


Oxford University Press offers the following extended description at their site:

Swashbucklers is the first study of one of the most popular and enduring genres in television history - the costume adventure series.

James Chapman explores the history of swashbuckling television from its origins in the 1950s to the present day. He maps the major production cycles of the Anglophone swashbuckler both in Britain and in the United States and places the genre in its historical, cultural and institutional contexts. He shows how the success of The Adventures of Robin Hood in the 1950s established a template for a genre that has been one of the most successful of British television exports. And he considers how America responded to this 'British invasion' with its own swashbuckling heroes such as Zorro.

Chapman also analyses the cultural politics of the swashbuckler, considering how it has been a vehicle for the representation of ideologies of class, gender and nationhood. While some swashbucklers have promoted consensual politics, others such as Dick Turpin and Robin of Sherwood have presented us with heroes on the margins of society who challenge its inequities and injustices. The relationship of the televisions swashbuckler to the founding myths of the genre is discussed, along with how the genre has responded to the changing cultural and ideological contexts in which it is produced. What emerges is a picture of a genre that has proved remarkably flexible in adapting its form and style to match the popular tastes of audiences.

Swashbucklers is intended for students and teachers of popular television drama as well as for adventure-lovers everywhere.

Contents


Introduction

1. Exporting Englishness

2. Fantasy factories

3. Revisionist revivals

4. Rebels with a cause

5. Heritage heroes

6. Millennial mavericks

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index



Author

James Chapman is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Leicester

Robin Hood CD Update

An update to my previous post. Intrada has now listed the information and track listing for The Legacy Collection: Robin Hood CD to its online catalog. Details at http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.10941/.f.

Here are all 41 tracks:

Disc 1
1. Main Title (0:52)
2. Whistle Stop (2:49)
3. Oo-De-Lally (0:59)
4. Hail John (1:50)
5. It’s Only a Circus (1:17)
6. Fortune Tellers (3:07)
7. Enter the Sheriff (1:37)
8. Skippy’s Birthday Gift (3:32)
9. A Lost Arrow (1:20)
10. Meeting Maid Marion (2:35)
11. To the Winner (1:32)
12. The Archery Affair (1:52)
13. Fooling Ol’ Bushel Britches (2:01)
14. Archer’s Processional (1:04)
15. Sir Hiss Suspects (0:34)
16. Well, Well (2:00)
17. The Loser (2:11)
18. Seize the Fat One (3:35)
19. Fight On Wisconsin (0:36)
20. There You Are (2:11)
21. Love (1:56)
22. The Phony King of England (2:44)
23. Double the Taxes (0:46)
24. Not In Nottingham (5:05)
25. Not Yourself Today (4:02)
26. Bird Brain (4:02)
27. Lower the Bridge (6:12)
28. All’s Well That Ends Well (1:59)

Disc 2
1. Whistle Stop (Ragtime Demo) (Instrumental) (2:21)
2. Oo-De-Lally (Western Score Demo) (Instrumental) (0:38)
3. Not In Nottingham (Prince John Demo) (1:02)
4. Love (Robin Hood Version) (3:38)
5. The Phony King of England (Country Version) (2:04)
Louis Prima Bonus Tracks:
6. King Louie and Robin Hood (2:42)
7. Robin and Me (1:39)
8. Sherwood Forest (3:14)
9. The Phony King of England (2:09)
10. Friar Tuck (1:50)
11. Merry Men (1:34)
12. Love (1:55)
13. Robin Hood (2:15)

Disney's Robin Hood on CD!

I recently came across a reference to the Walt Disney Records The Legacy Collection Robin Hood two-disc set on Amazon.

The initial news and cover art were released in late May on the various Disney Music Emporium media sites (see, for example, the news on its Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/DisneyMusicEmporium/photos/a.1417819401816272.1073741828.1417567548508124/1850095375255337/).

Further details on the set can be found on the WDW News Today website (http://wdwnt.com/blog/2017/05/d23-expo-2017-disney-music-emporium-returning-album-signings/), where Jesse DeRosa wrote on 26 May 2016:

Disney Music Emporium, a pop-up store that sells collectable Disney music-related products, will be returning to the D23 Expo 2017. During the event, fans will be able to purchase new limited music releases from various Disney artists and composers.

Walt Disney Records The Legacy Collection Robin Hood, a two-disc set, will be released for the first time during the expo. Disc one of the collection includes songs and score from the film. Disc two includes unreleased demos and bonus tracks performed by Louis Prima. The CD collection contains liner notes, as well as a 20-page booklet featuring new artwork inspired by Robin Hood from Lorelay Bove, a visual development artist who’s worked on various Disney films including Tangled, Wreck-It Ralph, and more. Those that purchase the collection will receive a special lithograph featuring the back cover artwork, though there will only be a limited quantity available.

The Disney Middle Ages Now in Paperback

Palgrave has recently released Pugh and Aronstein's The Disney Middle Ages collection in paperback; it was originally released in hardcover in 2012. Full details on the new edition can be found at their UK (http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9780230340077) and US (http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9780230340077) websites.

Kalamazoo 2016 Round Table

Here are the details of our sponsored round table session for this year's Medieval Congress:

51st International Congress on Medieval Studies
Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI)
Thursday, 12 May, 7:30 PM
Session 164 (Bernhard 158)

More Middle Ages on Screen? Reconsidering The Reel Middle Ages (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa, Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages

Presider: Susan L. Aronstein, Univ. of Wyoming

Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven (2005): Medieval History as Caricature
June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart Univ.

Postmodern Medieval: BBC’s Robin Hood Series (2006–09)
Mikee Delony, Abilene Christian Univ.

What’s Love Got to Do with It?: Kevin Reynold’s Tristan & Isolde (2006)
Kate McGrath, Central Connecticut State Univ.

The Legend Continues: Exploring the Development of Arthur in Guy Ritchie’s The Knights of the Round Table: King Arthur (2016)
Kayla Sanderson, Abilene Christian Univ.

The full program can be accessed at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/events/sessions.

New/Recent: Medieval Motion Picture: The Politics of Adaptation

Here's another recent book of interest. This one looks to be from mostly European scholars.

The Medieval Motion Picture: The Politics of Adaptation
Edited by Andrew James Johnston, Margitta Rouse, Philipp Hinz
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Series The New Middle Ages

$95.00
ISBN 9780230112506
Publication Date April 2014
Hardcover (256 pages)
Formats Hardcover Ebook (EPUB) Ebook (PDF)

Details

Providing new and challenging ways of understanding the medieval in the modern and vice versa, The Medieval Motion Picture: The Politics of Adaptation highlights how medieval aesthetic experience breathes life into contemporary cinema. Engaging with the subject of time and temporality, the essays examine the politics of adaptation and our contemporary entanglement with the medieval: not only in overtly medieval-themed films but also in such diverse genres as thrillers, horror films, performance animation, and even science fiction. Among the films and TV shows discussed are productions such as HBO's award winning series Game of Thrones, Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula, Akira Kurosawa's Ran, and M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense.


Contents

Introduction: Temporalities of Adaptation; Andrew James Johnston and Margitta Rouse (read online)

1. "Now is the time": Shakespeare's Medieval Temporalities in Akira Kurosawa's Ran; Jocelyn Keller and Wolfram R. Keller

2. Dracula's Times: Adapting the Middle Ages in Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula; Cordula Lemke

3. Rethinking Anachronism for Medieval Film in Richard Donner's Timeline; Margitta Rouse

4. Otherness Redoubled and Refracted: Intercultural Dialogues in The Thirteenth Warrior; Judith Klinger

5. Crisis Discourse and Art Theory: Richard Wagner's Legacy in Films; Veith von Fürstenberg and Kevin Reynolds Stefan Keppler-Tasaki

6. Adaptation as Hyperreality: The (A)historicism of Trauma in Robert Zemeckis's Beowulf; Philipp Hinz and Margitta Rouse

7. Perils of Generation: Incest, Romance and the Proliferation of Narrative in Game of Thrones; Martin Bleisteiner

8. Arthurian Myth and Cinematic Horror: M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense; Hans Jürgen Scheuer

9. Marian Re-writes the Legend: The Temporality of Archaeological Remains in Richard Lester's Robin and Marian; Andrew James Johnston

Bibliography


Editors

Andrew James Johnston is Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and author of Performing the Middle Ages from Beowulf to Othello.

Margitta Rouse is Assistant Professor at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. She teaches medieval English literature as well as cinematic adaptation.

Philipp Hinz curates film festivals and publishes stage-to-screen adaptations on DVD.

Syfy Listings for September 2014

I seem to be forever catching up here. Here at last are the listings for September 2014. October 2014 will follow tonight and the rest of the 2014 backlog this weekend.

WEDNES., 3 SEPT

03:00 AM
Movie: Sinbad and the Minotaur

02:30 PM
Ghost Hunters: Knights of the Living Dead (Higgins Armory Museum)


THURS., 4 SEPT

11:10 PM
Syfy Original Movie: Thor: Hammer of the Gods


FRI., 5 SEPT

3:20 AM
Movie: Almighty Thor

11:00 PM
The Almighty Johnsons: "Hunting Reindeer on Slippery Rocks"


SAT., 6 SEPT

12:00 AM
The Almighty Johnsons: "Every Good Quest Has a Sacrifice"

03:00 AM
The Almighty Johnsons: "Hunting Reindeer on Slippery Rocks"
04:00 AM
The Almighty Johnsons: "Every Good Quest Has a Sacrifice"


SUN., 7 SEPT

1:30 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Riverworld (Part 1)
3:30 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Riverworld (Part 2)


WEDNES., 10 SEPT

01:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Black Forest
03:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Witchville

03:30 PM
Movie: Vikingdom

09:00 PM
Movie: Robin Hood


FRI., 12 SEPT

12:10 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Aladdin And The Death Lamp

04:10 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Book Of Beasts, The


SAT., 13 SEPT

04:00 PM
Movie: Outlander


MON., 15 SEPT

05:00 AM
The Twilight Zone: A Short Drink From A Certain Fountain


THURS., 25 SEPT

11:30 AM
Movie: Jabberwock


FRI., 26 SEPT

12:35 AM
Movie: Dracula 2000
02:35 AM
Movie: Dracula II: Ascension

09:00 AM
Movie: Dracula 2000
11:00 AM
Movie: Dracula II: Ascension

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

Robin Hood Papers from Fall 2013

The Game of Robin Hood
9th Biennial Conference
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ROBIN HOOD STUDIES
October 31– November 2, 2013
Saint Louis University
http://robinhood.slu.edu/index.html

Thursday, 31 October
1:15 - 2:45 PM SESSION 1: SCREEN GAMES 1
Il Monastero
Chair: Valerie Johnson, Georgia Institute of Technology

What a wicked game to play: The Robin/Guy/Marian Triangle in the 2006 BBC Robin Hood.
Leah Larson, Our Lady of the Lake University

Playing the Bold Robin Hood: The Early Ballads in Season One of the BBC Robin Hood.
Kelhi DePace, Auburn University at Montgomery

Mummers and Jousters: Gentrification in Robin of Sherwood.
Laura Blunk, Cuyahoga Community College

3:00 - 4:30 PM SESSION 2: SCREEN GAMES 2
Il Monastero
Chair: Colin Pajda, Saint Louis University

The Evolution of Maid Marian in Film.
Haley Cole, Auburn University at Montgomery

Russell Crowe’s Robin Hood and a Game of Variants.
Joanna Szwed-Sliwowska, University of Warsaw

Through the Virtual Greenwood: A Discussion of Robin Hood in Videogames.
Thomas Rowland, Saint Louis University

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

Robin Hood on Film/TV News

The upcoming 9th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Robin Hood Studies convenes from 31 October through 3 November at St Louis University and opens with a slate of panels on Robin Hood on screen. Details as follows. The complete program and conference information can be accessed at http://robinhood.slu.edu/index.html.

Thursday, 31 October

Session 1- Screen Games 1 [1:15 – 2:45 Il Monastero]

1. What a wicked game to play: The Robin/Guy/Marian Triangle in the 2006 BBC Robin Hood
Leah Larson, Our Lady of the Lake University

2. Playing the Bold Robin Hood: The Early Ballads in Season One of the BBC’s Robin Hood
Kelhi DePace, Auburn University Montgomery)

3. Mummers and jousters: Gentrification in Robin of Sherwood
Laura Blunk, Cuyahoga Community College


Session 2 – Screen Games 2 [3:00 – 4:30 Il Monastero]
Chair: Colin Pajda

1. The Evolution of Maid Marian in Film
Haley Cole, Auburn University Montgomery

2. Russell Crowe’s Robin Hood and a game of variants
Joanna Szwed-Sliwowska, University of Warsaw

3. Through the Virtual Greenwood: A Discussion of Robin Hood Video Games
Thomas Rowland, Saint Louis University

Sword in Stone and Robin Hood Updates

Advance reviews of both The Sword in thse Stone and Robin Hood Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Edition combo packs reveal that both releases will include concept art for scenes deleted from the films. Further details at the following site:

The Sword in the Stone:

http://www.criterionforum.org/DVD-review/the-sword-in-the-stone-dual-format-edition/disney/1202

http://moviemansguide.com/main/2013/07/review-swordinthestone-bd/


Robin Hood:

http://www.criterionforum.org/DVD-review/robin-hood-dual-format-edition/disney/1204

http://moviemansguide.com/main/2013/07/review-robinhood-bd/

From the Disney Vault Update

Disney is re-releasing both The Sword in the Stone (1963) and Robin Hood (1973) to Blu-ray next month as part of special anniversary editions including digital copies of both films (whether purchased as part of the DVD or Blu-Ray/DVD combo sets). Both were recently released as DVD special editions (in 2008 and 2006, respectively). No word yet on whether or not they will include any new extras. I append the advertisement from the Disney Movie Club. Both films can also be purchased from various online sellers, though, curiously, Disney's own DisneyStore.com fails to list either product.

Also of interest, the Disney Movie Club is offering Season 2, Volume 2 of the popular 1990s' series Gargoyles as a 3-disc club exclusive. The set completes the season (first released to DVD in 2005). The Gargoyles are originally from 10th century Scotland but active in the modern world, where they interact with a number of figures from medieval myth and legend, including Macbeth, King Arthur, the Lady of the Lake, Cú Chulainn, Odin, and the Weird Sisters from Macbeth. In addition, this half of the season introduces Titania (from Midsummer Night's Dream) into the Gargoyles universe and also integrates both her and Puck (also from MND) firmly into the Gargoyle's extended family.

Lee on Cold War Comics and Films

With apologies for the multiple cross-postings:

Lee, Peter W. “Red Days, Black Knights: Medieval-themed Comic Books in American Containment Culture.”Corporate Medievalism II. Ed. Karl Fugelso. Studies in Medievalism 22. Cambridge, Eng.: D. S. Brewer-Boydell & Brewer, 2013. 181-200. Print.

Kalamazoo Update

Blog members should be interested in the following details on our sessions for this year's Medieval Congress. The complete program can be accessed at: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/sessions.html.

Thursday, 9 May 3:30 PM
Session 114: Fetzer 1005

Still Getting Medieval on Television: Medieval-Themed Television of the Twenty-First Century and Its Impact on Medieval Studies (A Roundtable)

Sponsor: Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages

Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa, Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages

Presider: Suanna H. Davis, Abilene Christian Univ.

Hybrid Medievalisms in Arthurian Romance and the Historical Evolution of the Genre from Print to Television
Kevin Teo Kia Choong, Nagoya Univ.

When Bows Don’t Bow: Sherwood and Camelot in Conflict
Elizabeth Bernhardt, Abilene Christian Univ.

Kaamelott/Camelot on the Small Screen
Tara Foster, Northern Michigan Univ.

Medieval Themes in the Contemporary Newsroom
Charlotte A. T. Wulf, Stevenson Univ.

Medievalism in Television’s Popular Series Once Upon a Time
Mikee Delony, Abilene Christian Univ.

Saturday, 11 May 12:00 PM

Valley III Room 303

Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Villains of the Matter of Britain; Institute for the Advancement of Scholarship on the Magic-Wielding Figures of Visual Electronic Multimedia; Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Business Meeting and Reception

Michael

Syfy February 2012

Second of three posts on Syfy. The following represent the medieval-themed listings from last month, February 2013. Note that season five of Merlin continues here.


FRI., 1 FEB
10:00 PM
Merlin: The Disir


SAT., 2 FEB
12:00 AM
Merlin: The Disir


SUN., 3 FEB
08:00 PM
Movie: Chronicles Of Narnia, The: Prince Caspian


MON., 4 FEB
04:00 PM
Movie: Chronicles Of Narnia, The: Prince Caspian


TUES., 5 FEB
06:00 PM
Face Off: Make It Reign [premiered in Jan.]


WEDNES., 6 FEB
12:00 PM
Ghost Hunters International: Hamlet's Castle: Denmark


FRI., 8 FEB
10:00 PM
Merlin: The Dark Tower


SAT., 9 FEB
12:00 AM
Merlin: The Dark Tower


SUN., 10 FEB

10:30 AM
Movie: Stargate: The Ark Of Truth

   
05:30 PM
Movie: Outlander


MON., 11 FEB
02:30 PM
Movie: Outlander


TUES., 12 FEB
04:00 PM
Destination Truth: Issie/Icelandic Elves [??]
05:00 PM
Face Off: Make It Reign


THURS., 14 FEB

09:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Beauty And The Beasts: A Dark Tale
11:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Grendel
01:00 PM
Syfy Original Movie: Beyond Sherwood Forest
03:00 PM
Movie: Dragon Wars
    
09:00 PM
Movie: Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans


FRI., 15 FEB

09:30 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Sinbad And The Minotaur

01:30 PM
Syfy Original Movie: Almighty Thor

06:00 PM
Movie: Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans

10:00 PM
Merlin: A Lesson In Vengeance


SAT., 16 FEB
12:00 AM
Merlin: A Lesson In Vengeance


TUES., 19 FEB
04:00 PM
Face Off: Make It Reign


WEDNES., 20 FEB
01:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Sinbad And The Minotaur
03:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie: Immortal Voyage Of Captain Drake, The


FRI., 22 FEB

03:00 AM
   
Syfy Original Movie: Dark Relic

10:00 PM
Merlin: The Hollow Queen
[1 week hiatus after this episode; season 5 continues beginning 8 March]


SAT., 23 FEB
12:00 AM
Merlin: The Hollow Queen


SUN., 24 FEB
10:30 AM
Face Off: Make It Reign


TUES., 26 FEB

01:00 AM
Merlin: The Hollow Queen

03:00 PM
Face Off: Make It Reign

Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture (New Book)

Out late last year from Palgrave Macmillan:

Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture
The New Middle Ages
Edited By Gail Ashton and Daniel T. Kline

Palgrave Macmillan, December 2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-33734-3, ISBN10: 0-230-33734-1,
5.500 x 8.500 inches, 258 pages,
Hardcover $85.00

Drawing from an eclectic mix of scholars from the US, UK, and Australia,Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture examines the persistence of medieval themes, characters, and situations in a variety of media from reality television to Virginia Woolf, Arthurian film to Disney animation, Shrek to historical fantasy. Each essay demonstrates that the Middle Ages are not relegated to a static past but continue to fashion a vital presence in contemporary popular culture, changing our assumptions about the flow of history and the creation of the present.

 

Contents (from WorldCat):

 

The YouTube prioress : anti-semitism and twenty-first century participatory culture / Candace Barrington --
Animated conversations in Nottingham : Disney's Robin Hood (1973) / Andrew Lynch --
Virginia Woolf's middle ages / Steve Ellis --
Dario Fo's Mistero Buffo and the left-modernist reclamation of medieval popular culture / Louise D'Arcens --
Acephalic history : a Bataillian reading of Monty Python and the Holy Grail / Daniel T. Kline --
Medievalism and periodization in Frozen river and The second shepherds' play : environment, class, miracle / Robert S. Sturges --
Time travel, pulp fictions, and changing attitudes toward the Middle Ages : why you can't get Renaissance on somebody's ass / Steve Guthrie --
H.P. Lovecraft's "unnamable" Middle Ages / Brantley L. Bryant --
Confession, contrition, and the rhetoric of tears : medievalism and reality television / Angela Jane Weisl --
Robin Hood, frenched / Richard Utz --
Brief encounters : Arthur's epic journey in Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur (2005) / Leslie Coote --
"My other world" : historical reflections and refractions in modern Arthurian fantasy / Philippa Semper --
Queer origins, deformed lies : seeding the future in Torchwood's "Children of earth" / Gail Ashton --
The medieval entertainment channel : the Shrek quartet / Kathleen Coyne Kelly.

About the editors:

Gail Ashton is an independent scholar and poet. She previously taught at the University of Manchester and the University of Birmingham and writes, edits, and reviews medieval and contemporary literature, especially Chaucer and poetry.

Daniel T. Kline is a professor and Chair of English at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He specializes in Middle English literature and culture, literary and cultural theory, and digital medievalism. He has published in Chaucer Review, College Literature, Comparative Drama, the Journal of English and Germanic Philology, and Philological Quarterly, among others. 

 

 

Praise:

 

'Spanning many centuries and multiple media, this collection will inform and delight specialists, generalists, and anyone else interested in how we shape the Middle Ages and they shape us. Through highly engaging case-studies, the authors thoroughly and thoughtfully explore the vast and sometimes surprising legacy of our medieval past. They challenge the most fundamental assumptions of (neo)medievalism and open new avenues of research into one of the most dynamic and wide-ranging fields in the humanities.' - Karl Fugelso, professor of Art History at Towson University and editor of Studies in Medievalism
'An insightful collection that confronts issues too often left implicit in studies of medievalism head-on. Together the essays pose an important challenge: to examine the persistence, contingency and plurality of medievalism, and the implications that has for periodization and the ongoing influence of the medieval on the modern.' - David W. Marshall, California State University San Bernardino and editor of Mass Market Medieval: Essays on the Middle Ages in Popular Culture

'The essays in Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture are energetic and spirited. They explore the diversity of medievalisms in popular culture, asking powerful questions about modern critical, creative, and political investments in such forms of medieval re-creation. Through a series of detailed readings, the authors offer loving, critical attention to texts that are often dismissed or unregarded. The best of these essays go even further: to consider the role of medievalism in shaping our ideas of modernity, and the relationship between high and popular culture. This collection is packed full of fresh insights and readings, and will become essential reading for students and researchers working in this field.' - Stephanie Trigg, University of Melbourne