Pugh, Tison
Race, Class, and Gender in “Medieval” Cinema
1. Introduction: Filming the “other” Middle Ages
Tison Pugh, Lynn T. Ramey
Part I. Multicultural Identities: A Lost Ideal?
2. Once, Present, and Future Kings:
Arthur Lindley
3. Chahine’s
Don Hoffman
4. Reversing the Crusades: Hegemony, Orientalism, and Film Language in Youssef Chahine’s
John M. Ganim
5. Samurai on Shifting Ground: Negotiating the Medieval and the Modern in
Randy P. Schiff
Part II. Barbarism and the Medieval other
6. Vikings through the Eyes of an Arab Ethnographer: Constructions of the other in
Lynn Shutters
7. Mission Historical, Or “[T]here Were a Hell of a Lot of Knights”: Ethnicity and Alterity in Jerry Bruckheimer’s
Caroline Jewers
8. Inner-City Chivalry in Gil Junger’s
Laurie A. Finke, Martin B. Shichtman
9. Queering the Medieval Dead: History, Horror, and Masculinity in Sam Raimi’s
Tison Pugh
Part III. Romantic Values
10. In Praise of Troubadourism: Creating Community in Occupied France, 1942–43
Lynn T. Ramey
11. Sexing Warrior Women in China’s Martial Arts World: King Hu’s
Peter Lorge
12. The Hawk, the Wolf, and the Mouse: Tracing the Gendered other in Richard Donner’s
Angela Jane Weisl
13. Chaucer’s Man Show: Anachronistic Authority in Brian Helgeland’s
Holly A. Crocker
14. The “other” Women of Sherwood: The Construction of Difference and Gender in Cinematic Treatments of the Robin Hood Legend
Lorraine K. Stock, Candace Gregory-Abbott
Keywords: History, Social History, Cultural History, Ancient History, History of Medieval Europe, Film History, Film and Television Studies
- Editor
- Pugh, Tison
- Ramey, Lynn T.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2007
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- The New Middle Ages
- Page amount
- 237 pages
- Category
- History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230603561
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-53486-9