The medieval motion picture : the politics of adaptation /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Johnston, Andrew James (Editor), Rouse, Margitta, 1970- (Editor), Hinz, Philipp, 1973- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Subjects:	Middle Ages in motion pictures. Film adaptations > History and criticism. Middle Ages in literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: temporalities of adaptation / Andrew James Johnston and Margitta Rouse
"Now is the time": Shakespeare's medieval temporalities in Akira Kurosawa's Ran / Jocelyn Keller and Wolfram R. Keller
Dracula's times: adapting the Middle Ages in Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula / Cordula Lemke
Rethinking anachronism for medieval film in The thirteenth warrior / Judith Klinger
Crisis discourse and art theory: Richard Wagner's legacy in films by Veith Von Fürstenberg and Kevin Reynolds / Stefan Keppler-Tasaki
Adaptation as hyperreality: the (a)historicism of trauma in Robert Zemeckis's Beowulf / Philipp Hinz and Margitta Rouse
Perils of generation: incest, romance and the proliferation of narrative in Game of thrones / Martin Bleisteiner
Arthurian myth and cinematic horror: Night Shyamalan's The sixth sense / Hans Jürgen Scheuer
Marian re-writes the legend: the temporality of archaeological remains in Richard Lester's Robin and Marian / Andrew James Johnston.