| Description |
x, 205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Chaucer for a new millennium : the BBC Canterbury tales / Kevin J. Harty -- "If I lay my hands on the grail" : Arthurianism and progressive rock / Paul Hardwick -- The sound of silents : aurality and medievalism in Benjamin Christensen's Häxan / Alison Tara Walker -- Antichrist superstars : the Vikings in hard rock and heavy metal / Simon Trafford, Aleks Pluskowski -- The future is what it used to be : medieval prophecy and popular culture / Stephen Yandell -- Idealized images of Wales in the fiction of Edith Pargeter/Ellis Peters / Lesley Jacobs -- Places don't have to be true to be true : the appropriation of King Arthur and the cultural value of tourist sites / Benjamin Earl -- "Accident my codlings" : sitcom, cinema and the re-writing of history in The blackadder / Katherine J. Lewis -- Medieval history and cultural forgetting : oppositional ethnography in The templar revelation / Hannah R. Johnson -- Teaching the Middle Ages / Carl James Grindley -- Virtually medieval : The age of kings interprets the Middle Ages / Daniel T. Kline -- A world unto itself : autopoietic systems and secondary worlds in Dungeons & dragons / David W. Marshall -- Anything different is good : incremental repetition, courtly love, and purgatory in Groundhog Day / William Racicot |
| Summary |
"The 14 essays in this book encompass diverse theoretical perspectives and are grouped loosely around distinct functions of medievalism, including the exposure of recent social concerns; the use of medieval images in modern political contexts; and the medieval's influence on products of today's popular culture"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Commercial products -- Social aspects.
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Culture in motion pictures.
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Medievalism -- Social aspects.
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Medievalism -- Political aspects.
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Medievalism.
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Middle Ages in art.
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Middle Ages in literature.
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Middle Ages in motion pictures.
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Popular culture.
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Rock music -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Marshall, David W., 1970-
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| LC no. |
2007001362 |
| ISBN |
0786429224 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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9780786429226 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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