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Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture

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Author(s): Gail Ashton, Daniel T. Kline (eds.)
Series: The New Middle Ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2012

Language: English
Tags: Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; History of Medieval Europe; Medieval Literature; Literary History; Cultural Studies

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Now and Then....Pages 1-12
The YouTube Prioress: Anti-Semitism and Twenty-First Century Participatory Culture....Pages 13-28
Animated Conversations in Nottingham: Disney’s Robin Hood (1973)....Pages 29-42
Virginia Woolf’s Middle Ages....Pages 43-55
Dario Fo’s Mistero Buffo and the Left-Modernist Reclamation of Medieval Popular Culture....Pages 57-70
Acephalic History: A Bataillian Reading of Monty Python and the Holy Grail....Pages 71-83
Medievalism and Periodization in Frozen River and The Second Shepherds’ Play: Environment, Class, Miracle....Pages 85-98
Time Travel, Pulp Fictions, and Changing Attitudes Toward the Middle Ages: Why You Can’t Get Renaissance on Somebody’s Ass....Pages 99-111
H. P. Lovecraft’s “Unnamable” Middle Ages....Pages 113-127
Confession, Contrition, and the Rhetoric of Tears: Medievalism and Reality Television....Pages 129-143
Robin Hood, Frenched....Pages 145-158
Brief Encounters: Arthur’s Epic Journey in Antoine Fuqua’s King Arthur (2005)....Pages 159-172
“My Other World”: Historical Reflections and Refractions in Modern Arthurian Fantasy....Pages 173-186
Queer Origins, Deformed Lines: Seeding the Future in Torchwood’s “Children of Earth”....Pages 187-201
The Medieval Entertainment Channel: The Shrek Quartet....Pages 203-218
Back Matter....Pages 219-245