Holy Grail on Film

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.

“it is a rich and rewarding collection of daring essays by edgy scholars”—Arthuriana; “engaging...a beautifully written work that would appeal to anyone interested in the Holy Grail, Arthurian legend and indeed, the medieval period.”—Destructive Music.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionHoly Grail, Silent Grail (Kevin J. Harty)The Silver Chalice: The Once and Future Grail (K. S. Whetter)Lancelot du lac: Robert Bresson’s Arthurian Realism (Joan Tasker Grimbert)Perceval of the ­Avant-Garde: Rohmer, Blank and von Trier (Alan Baragona)Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s Parsifal: Remystifying Kundry (Jon Sherman)“Lovely Filth”: Monty Python and the Matter of the Holy Grail (Christine M. Neufeld)John Boorman’s Excalibur and the Irrigating Light of the Grail (Raeleen ­Chai-Elsholz with ­Jean-Marc Elsholz)The Da Vinci Code and the Myth of History (Susan Aronstein)Percival in Cooperstown: Arthurian Legend, Baseball Mythology and the Mediated Quest in Barry Levinson’s The Natural (James Jesson)Terry Gilliam’s The Fisher King (Cory James Rushton)A Son, His Father, Some Nazis and the Grail: Lucas and Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Joseph M. Sullivan)A Grail or a Mirage? Searching the Wasteland of The Road Warrior (Paul B. Sturtevant)The Grail as Symbolic Quest in Tarkovsky’s Stalker (Andrew B. R. Elliott)The Waterboy and Swamp Chivalry: A Grail Knight for American Teens (Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Shichtman)Holy Grail, Schlocky Grail (David W. Marshall)About the ContributorsIndex