Filming the Middle Ages

by Bettina Bildhauer

In this groundbreaking account of film history, Bettina Bildhauer shows how from the earliest silent films to recent blockbusters, medieval topics and plots have played an important but overlooked role in the development of cinema.

Filming the Middle Ages is the first book to define medieval films as a group and trace their history from silent film in Weimar Germany to Hollywood and then to recent European co-productions. Bildhauer...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861898088
• ISBN13: 9781861898081
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 2.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 9.2"