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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Filming the “Other” Middle Ages
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Multicultural Identities: A Lost Ideal?
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Barbarism and the Medieval other
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Romantic Values
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About this book
Reviews
An informative, stimulating collection of academic, yet reader-friendly, meditations on the cinematic representation of that most modern of historical and intellectual constructs, the Middle Ages. In welcome contrast to much work on medievalism, the larger cultural phenomenon to which these films are intriguingly related, the editors and contributors demonstrate a sophisticated awareness of the important work done during the last decade on the many intersections between film and history. It is also welcome that all involved, though at least primarily trained in other fields, prove themselves expert enough in all relevant matters cinematic to make this volume of interest to their colleagues in film studies.With its sustaining concentration on gender and otherness more generally, Race, Class, and Gender in "Medieval" Cinema also makesan important contribution to ongoing, importantdebates within the related areas of cultural and political identity studies.' - R. Barton Palmer, Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature and Director of the Film and International Culture program at Clemson University; Author of Medieval Epic and Romance and Traditions in World Cinema 'This stimulating collection sheds important light on the ways in which medieval films construct the past to interrogate the present, particularly as they wrestle with questions of race, class and gender. Its thoughtful and thought-provoking essays cover a wide range of national cinemas (Hollywood, Egypt, France, and Japan), historical periods (from Occupied France to 2004's King Arthur ) and genres (fantasy, horror, martial arts), allowing the collection to address its central concerns from a variety of perspectives and presenting a truly rich "other Middle Ages" for film scholars and medievalists.' - Susan Aronstein, University of Wyoming
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Race, Class, and Gender in "Medieval" Cinema
Editors: Lynn T. Ramey, Tison Pugh
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230603561
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7427-3Published: 20 April 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-53486-9Published: 20 April 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-60356-1Published: 19 February 2007
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 228
Topics: Social History, Cultural History, Ancient History, History of Medieval Europe, Film History, Screen Studies