Holy grail on film : essays on the cinematic quest /

This collection of new essays is the first to study film depictions of the quest for the Holy Grail, the holy Christian relic of legend supposedly used by Jesus at the Last Supper.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Harty, Kevin J. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Publishers, Inc., 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Holy Grail, silent Grail / Kevin J. Harty
  • The silver chalice: the once and future Grail / K.S. Whetter
  • Lancelot du lac: Robert Bresson's Arthurian realism / Joan Tasker Grimbert
  • Perceval of the avant-garde: Rohmer, Blank and von Trier / Alan Baragona
  • Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's Parsifal: remystifying Kundry / Jon Sherman
  • "Lovely filth": Monty Python and the matter of the Holy Grail / Christine M. Neufeld
  • John Boorman's excalibur and the irrigating light of the Grail / Raeleen Chai-Elsholz with Jean-Marc Elsholz
  • The Da Vinci code and the myth of history / Susan Aronstein
  • Percival in Cooperstown: Arthurian legend, baseball mythology and the mediated quest in Barry Levinson's The Natural / James Jesson
  • Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King / Cory James Rushton
  • A son, his father, some Nazis and the Grail: Lucas and Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade / Joseph M. Sullivan
  • A Grail or a mirage? Searching the wasteland of The Road Warrior / Paul B. Sturtevant
  • The Grail as symbolic quest in Tarkovsky's Stalker / Andrew B.R. Elliott
  • The Waterboy and swamp chivalry: a Grail knight for American teens / Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Shichtman
  • Holly Grail, schlocky Grail / David W. Marshall.