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Cinema Arthuriana : twenty essays  Cover Image Book Book

Cinema Arthuriana : twenty essays / edited by Kevin J. Harty.

Harty, Kevin J. (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780786446834 (pbk)
  • ISBN: 0786413441 (alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: x, 307 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
  • Edition: Rev. ed.
  • Publisher: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
"The present work is a reprint of the illustrated case-bound edition of Cinema Arthuriana: twenty essays [revised edition] first published in 2002 by McFarland" - verso of title page.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
"A comprehensive filmography and bibliography": p. 252-301.
Formatted Contents Note:
1. Cinema Arthuriana: An Overview / Kevin J. Harty -- 2. Mythopoeia in Excalibur / Norris J. Lacy -- 3. Fire, Water, Rock: Elements of Setting in John Boorman's Excalibur and Steve Barron's Merlin / Muriel Whitaker -- 4. Morgan and the Problem of Incest / Jacqueline de Weever -- 5. Enemy in Our Midst: The Black Knight and the American Dream / Alan Lupack -- 6. Tortilla Flat and the Arthurian View / John Christopher Kleis -- 7. Retreat from Camelot: Adapting Bernard Malamud's The Natural to Film / Barbara Tepa Lupack -- 8. Cinematic American Camelots Lost and Found: The Film Versions of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and George Romero's Knightriders / Kevin J. Harty -- 9. Ironic Tradition in Four Arthurian Films / Raymond H. Thompson -- 10. Two Films That Sparkle: The Sword in the Stone and Camelot / Alice Grellner --
11. Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Madness with a Definite Method / David D. Day -- 12. Not Dead Yet: Monty Python and the Holy Grail in the Twenty-first Century / Donald L. Hoffman -- 13. Arthurian Legend in French Cinema: Robert Bresson's Lancelot du Lac and Eric Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois / Jeff Rider, Richard Hull, Christopher Smith, Michael Carnes, Sasha Foppiano and Annie Hesslein -- 14. From Stage to Screen: The Dramatic Compulsion in French Cinema and Denis Llorca's Les Chevaliers de la table ronde (1990) / Sandra Gorgievski -- 15. Blank, Syberberg, and the German Arthurian Tradition / Ulrich Muller -- 16. Gawain on Film (The Remake): Thames Television Strikes Back / Robert J. Blanch and Julian N. Wasserman -- 17. Will the "Reel" Mordred Please Stand Up? Strategies for Representing Mordred in American and British Arthurian Film / Michael A. Torregrossa -- 18. Filming the Tristan Myth / Meradith T. McMunn -- 19. Fable and Poesie in Cocteau's L'Eternel Retour (1943) / Joan Tasker Grimbert and Robert Smarz -- 20. Arms and Armor in Arthurian Films / Helmut Nickel -- 21. Cinema Arthuriana: A Comprehensive Filmography and Bibliography / Kevin J. Harty.
Subject: Arthurian romances in motion pictures.
Arthurian romances > Adaptations > History and criticism.
Kings and rulers in motion pictures.
Medievalism > History > 20th century.
Middle Ages in motion pictures.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.

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