Cinema Medievalia - by Kevin J Harty & Scott Manning (Paperback)

About the Book

"This collection of 19 original essays on medieval cinema is published coincidentally with the 25th anniversary of the publication of the editor's The Reel Middle Ages. These essays offer in-depth studies of nearly three dozen feature-length films, along with other, shorter examples of cinema medievalia. Hailing from Australia, Canada, England, France, Iceland, Scotland, and the United States, contributors bring a wide variety of backgrounds and critical approaches to the films discussed herein, which include silent films, animated films, films in black and white, and films in technicolor, among others. This collection presents a full century of cinematic depictions of the Middle Ages from the 1920s to 2021"--

Book Synopsis

This collection of original essays presents new scholarship on nearly three dozen feature-length films, including silent films, animated films, films in black and white, and films in technicolor, along with other, shorter examples of cinematic medievalism.

Written by contributors from around the globe with a wide variety of backgrounds, the essays in this volume take a critical approach to one of the most popular forms of medivalism. This book presents a full century of cinematic depictions of the Middle Ages, with new examinations of works such as The Seventh Seal, God's Fool, La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, Saladin the Victorious, Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic, and A Knight's Tale, among others.

About the Author

Kevin J. Harty, professor and formerly chair of English and coordinator of the Undergraduate General Education Core at La Salle University in Philadelphia, is associate editor of Arthuriana, the official journal of the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society (of which he is the former president). He has previously written or edited 14 books, including ground-breaking studies of depictions of the Middle Ages on film. Scott Manning has published a book on Joan of Arc, as well as essays in Studies in Medievalism, Film & History, and The Year's Work in Medievalism and is co-chair of the Medieval & Renaissance Area for the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association.