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The Medieval Motion Picture: The Politics of Adaptation

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Author(s): Andrew James Johnston, Margitta Rouse, Philipp Hinz (eds.)
Series: The New Middle Ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2014

Language: English
Tags: Medieval Literature; Cultural and Media Studies, general; Film History; Literary History; Media Research; Film and Television Studies

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction: Temporalities of Adaptation....Pages 1-18
“Now is the Time”: Shakespeare’s Medieval Temporalities in Akira Kurosawa’s Ran ....Pages 19-40
Dracula’s Times: Adapting the Middle Ages in Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula....Pages 41-56
Rethinking Anachronism for Medieval Film in Richard Donner’s Timeline....Pages 57-78
Otherness Redoubled and Refracted: Intercultural Dialogues in The Thirteenth Warrior....Pages 79-106
Crisis Discourse and Art Theory: Richard Wagner’s Legacy in Films by Veith von Fürstenberg and Kevin Reynolds....Pages 107-128
Adaptation as Hyperreality: The (A)Historicism of Trauma in Robert Zemeckis’s Beowulf....Pages 129-153
Perils of Generation: Incest, Romance, and the Proliferation of Narrative in Game of Thrones....Pages 155-169
Arthurian Myth and Cinematic Horror: M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense....Pages 171-191
Marian Rewrites the Legend: The Temporality of Archaeological Remains in Richard Lester’s Robin and Marian....Pages 193-211
Back Matter....Pages 213-233