| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 245 pages). |
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text file |
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PDF |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
The new Middle Ages
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New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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| Summary |
Drawing from an eclectic mix of scholars from the US, UK, and Australia, "Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture" examines the persistence of medieval themes, characters, and situations in a variety of media from reality television to Virginia Woolf, from Arthurian film to Disney animation, from Shrek to historical fantasy. Each essay demonstrates that the Middle Ages are not relegated to a static past but continue to fashion a vital presence in contemporary popular culture, changing our assumptions about the flow of history and the creation of the present. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The YouTube prioress : anti-semitism and twenty-first century participatory culture / Candace Barrington -- Animated conversations in Nottingham : Disney's Robin Hood (1973) / Andrew Lynch -- Virginia Woolf's middle ages / Steve Ellis -- Dario Fo's Mistero Buffo and the left-modernist reclamation of medieval popular culture / Louise D'Arcens -- Acephalic history : a Bataillian reading of Monty Python and the Holy Grail / Daniel T. Kline -- Medievalism and periodization in Frozen river and The second shepherds' play : environment, class, miracle / Robert S. Sturges -- Time travel, pulp fictions, and changing attitudes toward the Middle Ages : why you can't get Renaissance on somebody's ass / Steve Guthrie -- H.P. Lovecraft's "unnamable" Middle Ages / Brantley L. Bryant -- Confession, contrition, and the rhetoric of tears : medievalism and reality television / Angela Jane Weisl -- Robin Hood, frenched / Richard Utz -- Brief encounters : Arthur's epic journey in Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur (2005) / Leslie Coote -- "My other world" : historical reflections and refractions in modern Arthurian fantasy / Philippa Semper -- Queer origins, deformed lies : seeding the future in Torchwood's "Children of earth" / Gail Ashton -- The medieval entertainment channel : the Shrek quartet / Kathleen Coyne Kelly. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Civilization, Medieval -- Influence.
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Civilization, Medieval. |
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Middle Ages in motion pictures.
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Middle Ages in motion pictures. |
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History in popular culture.
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Medievalism in literature.
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History in popular culture. |
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Medievalism in literature. |
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HISTORY -- Medieval. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Ashton, Gail, 1957-
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Kline, Daniel T.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Medieval afterlives in popular culture. 1st ed. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 9780230337343 (DLC) 2012028993 (OCoLC)795759243 |
| ISBN |
9781137105172 (electronic book) |
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1137105178 (electronic book) |
| Standard No. |
10.1057/9781137105172 |
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