Cinema Arthuriana

Twenty Essays, rev. ed.

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

The legends of King Arthur have not only endured for centuries, but also flourished in constant retellings and new stories built around the central themes. With the coming of motion pictures, Arthur was destined to hit the screen.This edition of Cinema Arthuriana, revised in 2002, presents 20 essays on the topic of the recurring presence of the legend in film and television from 1904 to 2001. They cover such films as Excalibur (1981) and Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), television productions such as The Mists of Avalon (2001), and French and German films about the quest for the Holy Grail and the other adventures of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-02-12
Mått:178 x 254 x 16 mm
Vikt:558 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:317
Förlag:McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:9780786446834

Utforska kategorier

Sociala och etiska frågor inom Samhälle och politik
Television inom Kultur
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

“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.

Innehållsförteckning

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