The medieval hero on screen : representations from Beowulf to Buffy /
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| Language: | English |
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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Preface : Hollywood knights / Martha W. Driver and Sid Ray
- What's accuracy got to do with it? Historicity and authenticity in medieval film / Martha W. Driver
- Heroism and alienation through language in The lord of the rings / David Salo
- Authenticating realism in medieval film / William F. Woods
- Kid crusaders : heroic children on film / Martha W. Driver
- Shirley Temple and the Guys and dolls of the round table / Kevin J. Harty
- Boys to men : medievalism and masculinity in Star wars and E.T., the extra-terrestrial / Tom Henthorne
- Iron maidens : medieval female heroes on film / Martha W. Driver
- Girls on film : medieval virginity in the cinema / Anke Bernau
- Chivalric virtues in female form : Crouching tiger, hidden dragon's Wudan warrior princess as medieval hero / Diana E. Slampyak
- Not your typical knight : the emerging on-screen defender / Susan Butvin Sainato
- Time bandits : contemporary appropriations / Sid Ray
- The hagiography of steel : the hero's weapon and its place in pop culture / Carl James Grindley
- The way of the wizard : reflections of Merlin on film / Michael A. Torregrossa
- Hard day's knights : First knight, A knight's tale, and Black knight / Caroline Jewers
- "Stond and delyvr" : teaching the medieval movie / Martha W. Driver
- Oh, what a lovely war! Joan of Arc on screen / Edward Benson
- The hero in the classroom / John M. Ganim.