Arthurian legend in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries /
The King Arthur we imagine did not exist in history. He is the result of stories told and retold, changed and added to by storytellers for centuries, each making the story reflect the storyteller's time and values. The chapters in this book look at movies, manga, comic books, a television show,...
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Wilmington, Delaware :
Vernon Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Series in cinema and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Kids and kings : postmodern nostalgia and youthful Arthurian cinematic retellings / Sarah Gordon
- Camelot 3000 and Dracula vs. King Arthur : The uses of limited-run comics as updates of the Arthurian legend for contemporary readers / Carl Sell
- The fate of Artoria : contextually exploring gender, character, and conflict in Fate/Zero / Tracey Thomas
- Gender and class in John Steinbeck's The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights / Susan L. Austin
- A kid wizard in King Arthur's court / Zainah Usman
- Chivalry and ambition in Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King / Susan L. Austin
- Democratic dreams and the death of Arthur, king / Adrienne Major
- Killing Arthur : revising the Perceval myth in "Kingsman : The Secret Service" / Erin Mullally
- The death of the Fisher King in Iris Murdoch's The Time of the Angels / Susan L. Austin
- When Arthurian heroes fall : adapting moral failure and Christian redemption in the BBC's Merlin / Leah Hamilton.