Race, Class, and Gender in "Medieval" Cinema

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Pub. Date: 2007-02-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

The medieval film genre is not, in general, concerned with constructing a historically accurate past, but much analysis nonetheless centers on highlighting anachronisms. This book aims to help scholars and aficionados of medieval film think about how the re-creation of an often mythical past performs important cultural work for modern directors and viewers. The essays in this collection demonstrate that directors intentionally insert modern preoccupations into a setting that would normally be considered incompatible with these concepts. The Middle Ages provide an imaginary space far enough removed from the present day to explore modern preoccupations with human identity.

Author Biography

Lynn T. Ramey is Associate Professor of French at Vanderbilt University, where she is an affiliate of the film studies program and teaches a course on the history of French film. Her publications include numerous articles on East-West relations in medieval Europe as well as a book, Christian, Saracen and Genre in Medieval French Literature (2001).
 
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 Illustrationsp. ix
Introduction: Filming the "Other" Middle Agesp. 1
Multicultural Identities: A Lost Ideal?
Once, Present, and Future Kings: Kingdom of Heaven and the Multitemporality of Medieval Filmp. 15
Chahine's Destiny: Prophetic Nostalgia and the Other Middle Agesp. 31
Reversing the Crusades: Hegemony, Orientalism, and Film Language in Youssef Chahine's Saladinp. 45
Samurai on Shifting Ground: Negotiating the Medieval and the Modern in Seven Samurai and Yojimbop. 59
Barbarism and the Medieval Other
Vikings through the Eyes of an Arab Ethnographer: Constructions of the Other in The 13th Warriorp. 75
Mission Historical, or "[T]here were a hell of a lot of knights": Ethnicity and Alterity in Jerry Bruckheimer's King Arthurp. 91
Inner-City Chivalry in Gil Junger's Black Knight: A South Central Yankee in King Leo's Courtp. 107
Queering the Medieval Dead: History, Horror, and Masculinity in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead Trilogyp. 123
Romantic Values
In Praise of Troubadourism: Creating Community in Occupied France, 1942-43p. 139
Sexing Warrior Women in China's Martial Arts World: King Hu's A Touch of Zenp. 155
The Hawk, The Wolf, and The Mouse: Tracing the Gendered Other in Richard Donner's Ladyhawkep. 169
Chaucer's Man Show: Anachronistic Authority in Brian Helgeland's A Knight's Talep. 183
The "Other" Women of Sherwood: The Construction of Difference and Gender in Cinematic Treatments of the Robin Hood Legendp. 199
Notes on Contributorsp. 215
Indexp. 219
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