
Race, Class, and Gender in "Medieval" Cinema
by Ramey, Lynn T.; Pugh, TisonBuy New
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Summary
Author Biography
Tison Pugh is Associate Professor of English at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of Queering Medieval Genres and co-editor of Approaches to Teaching Chaucer’s “Troilus and Criseyde” and the Shorter Poems.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations | p. ix |
Introduction: Filming the "Other" Middle Ages | p. 1 |
Multicultural Identities: A Lost Ideal? | |
Once, Present, and Future Kings: Kingdom of Heaven and the Multitemporality of Medieval Film | p. 15 |
Chahine's Destiny: Prophetic Nostalgia and the Other Middle Ages | p. 31 |
Reversing the Crusades: Hegemony, Orientalism, and Film Language in Youssef Chahine's Saladin | p. 45 |
Samurai on Shifting Ground: Negotiating the Medieval and the Modern in Seven Samurai and Yojimbo | p. 59 |
Barbarism and the Medieval Other | |
Vikings through the Eyes of an Arab Ethnographer: Constructions of the Other in The 13th Warrior | p. 75 |
Mission Historical, or "[T]here were a hell of a lot of knights": Ethnicity and Alterity in Jerry Bruckheimer's King Arthur | p. 91 |
Inner-City Chivalry in Gil Junger's Black Knight: A South Central Yankee in King Leo's Court | p. 107 |
Queering the Medieval Dead: History, Horror, and Masculinity in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead Trilogy | p. 123 |
Romantic Values | |
In Praise of Troubadourism: Creating Community in Occupied France, 1942-43 | p. 139 |
Sexing Warrior Women in China's Martial Arts World: King Hu's A Touch of Zen | p. 155 |
The Hawk, The Wolf, and The Mouse: Tracing the Gendered Other in Richard Donner's Ladyhawke | p. 169 |
Chaucer's Man Show: Anachronistic Authority in Brian Helgeland's A Knight's Tale | p. 183 |
The "Other" Women of Sherwood: The Construction of Difference and Gender in Cinematic Treatments of the Robin Hood Legend | p. 199 |
Notes on Contributors | p. 215 |
Index | p. 219 |
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