Cinema Arthuriana

Kevin J. Harty, professor and formerly chair of English and coordinator of the Undergraduate General Education Core 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.

“an essential and classic resource in the study of Arthurian film”—Arthuriana; “a useful volume that might readily serve as a textbook...Kevin J. Harty, the originator of the term ‘cinema arthuriana,’ is an expert bibliographer and surveyor of the field”—Parergon.

• Table of ContentsPreface     The Contributors      1 Cinema Arthuriana: An Overview     2 Mythopoeia in Excalibur     3 Fire, Water, Rock: Elements of Setting in Excalibur and Merlin    4 Morgan and the Problem of Incest     5 An Enemy in Our Midst: The Black Knight and the American Dream    6 Tortilla Flat and the Arthurian View     7 The Retreat from Camelot: Adapting The Natural to Film     8 Cinematic American Camelots Lost and Found: The Film Versions of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court and Knightriders     9 The Ironic Tradition in Four Arthurian Films     10 Two Films That Sparkle: The Sword in the Stone and Camelot    11 Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Madness with a Definite Method     12 Not Dead Yet: Monty Python and the Holy Grail in the Twenty-first Century 13 The Arthurian Legend in French Cinema: Lancelot du Lac and Perceval le Gallois     14 From Stage to Screen: The Dramatic Compulsion in French Cinema and Les Chevaliers de la table ronde (1990)     15 Blank, Syberberg, and the German Arthurian Tradition     16 Gawain on Film (The Remake)     17 Will the “Reel” Mordred Please Stand Up?     18 Filming the Tristan Myth     19 Fable and Poésie in L'Éternel Retour (1943)     20 Arms and Armor in Arthurian Films     21 Cinema Arthuriana: A Comprehensive Filmography and Bibliography     Index