The Medieval Motion Picture

1. Introduction: Temporalities of Adaptation
Andrew James Johnston, Margitta Rouse

2. “Now is the Time”: Shakespeare’s Medieval Temporalities in Akira Kurosawa’s Ran

Jocelyn Keller, Wolfram R. Keller

3. Dracula’s Times: Adapting the Middle Ages in Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Cordula Lemke

4. Rethinking Anachronism for Medieval Film in Richard Donner’s Timeline
Margitta Rouse

5. Otherness Redoubled and Refracted: Intercultural Dialogues in The Thirteenth Warrior
Judith Klinger

6. Crisis Discourse and Art Theory: Richard Wagner’s Legacy in Films by Veith von Fürstenberg and Kevin Reynolds
Stefan Keppler-Tasaki

7. Adaptation as Hyperreality: The (A)Historicism of Trauma in Robert Zemeckis’s Beowulf
Philipp Hinz, Margitta Rouse

8. Perils of Generation: Incest, Romance, and the Proliferation of Narrative in Game of Thrones
Martin Bleisteiner

9. Arthurian Myth and Cinematic Horror: M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense
Hans Jürgen Scheuer

10. Marian Rewrites the Legend: The Temporality of Archaeological Remains in Richard Lester’s Robin and Marian
Andrew James Johnston

Keywords: Literature, Medieval Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Film History, Literary History, Media Research, Film and Television Studies