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Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture / edited by G. Ashton, D. Kline.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ashton, Gail, 1957-
- Series:
- The New Middle Ages, 2945-5944
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- Europe--History--476-1492.
- Europe.
- Literature, Medieval.
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- History of Medieval Europe.
- Medieval Literature.
- Literary History.
- Cultural Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- History of Medieval Europe.
- Medieval Literature.
- Literary History.
- Cultural Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (259 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2012.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is concerned with our ideological, technical and emotional investments in reclaiming medieval for contemporary popular culture. The authors illuminate both medieval and contemporary popular culture in surprising and productive ways while interrogating the many ways in which metamedievalism reinterprets and reconceptualises the medieval.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: Now and Then; 1. The YouTube Prioress: Anti-Semitism and Twenty-First Century Participatory Culture; 2. Animated Conversations in Nottingham: Disney's Robin Hood (1973); 3. Virginia Woolf 's Middle Ages; 4. Dario Fo's Mistero Buffo and the Left-Modernist Reclamation of Medieval Popular Culture; 5. Acephalic History: A Bataillian Reading of Monty Python and the Holy Grail; 6. Medievalism and Periodization in Frozen River and The Second Shepherds' Play: Environment, Class, Miracle
- 7. Time Travel, Pulp Fictions, and Changing Attitudes toward the Middle Ages: Why You Can't Get Renaissance on Somebody's Ass8. H. P. Lovecraft's "Unnamable" Middle Ages; 9. Confession, Contrition, and the Rhetoric of Tears: Medievalism and Reality Television; 10. Robin Hood, Frenched; 11. Brief Encounters: Arthur's Epic Journey in Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur (2005); 12. "My other world": Historical Ref lections and Refractions in Modern Arthurian Fantasy; 13. Queer Origins, Deformed Lines: Seeding the Future in Torchwood's "Children of Earth"
- 14. The Medieval Entertainment Channel: The Shrek QuartetBibliography; List of Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137105172
- 1137105178
- OCLC:
- 829459971
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