Studies in Medievalism XII: Film and Fiction: Reviewing the Middle Ages

Essays on the continuing power and applicability of medieval images, with particular reference to recent films.

The middle ages provide the material for mass-market films, for historical and fantasy fiction, for political propaganda and claims of legitimacy, and these in their turn exert a force well outside academia. The phenomenon is tooimportant to be left unscrutinised: these essays show the continuing power and applicability of medieval...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 085991772X
• ISBN13: 9780859917728
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"