ENGL 302: Medieval Literature: Medieval texts and medievalism

Description: Theory and methods of cinematic medievalism. Traversing the fantasy : screening the Middle Ages -- Signs of the medieval : a sociological stylistics of film -- Celluloid history : cinematic fidelity and infidelity -- The politics of cinematic medievalism. Mirror of princes : representations of political authority in medieval films -- Politics of hagiography : Joan of Arc on the screen -- The hagiography of politics : mourning in America -- The Crusades : war of the cross or God's own bloodbath? -- Cinematic medievalism and the anxieties of modernity. Looking awry at the grail : mourning becomes modernity -- Apocalyptic medievalism : rape and disease as figures of social anomie -- Forever young : the teen Middle Ages.

""The work introduces rapidly burgeoning field of medieval film studies; explores how a vast array of films contributes to the modern vision of life in the Middle Ages; is concerned with how time itself functions in cinematic representations of the medieval; and offers detailed considerations of specific examples of representations of medievalism in recent films"--Provided by publisher."

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Description: Political, intellectual and cultural contexts. Periods, populations and social orders -- Rulers and high politics -- The clergy and the intellectual world -- Those who worked -- Medieval English literature genres, canons and literary communities. Historical overview -- Overview by genres -- Critical approaches. From the Renaissance through the eighteenth century -- From the nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century -- Current issues and debates -- Resources for independent study. Chronology of key historical and cultural events -- Glossary of selected key terms and concepts -- Historical table of kings and rulers.

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