Hollywood Knights: Arthurian Cinema and the Politics of Nostalgia

by Susan Aronstein

Hollywood Knights examines the role played by Hollywood films in America's appropriation of the medieval past in times of cultural crisis. It analyzes the Arthurian films produced during the red scare of the 1950s, the breakdown of traditional authority in the 1960s and '70s, the turn to the right in the 1980s, and the redemption of national and masculine authority in the 1990s, arguing that these films propose an idealized past--an American Camelot...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403966494
• ISBN13: 9781403966490
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.6"