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BL
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659604
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| Main Entry
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Haydock, Nickolas
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| Title & Author
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Movie medievalism : : the imaginary Middle Ages /\ Nickolas Haydock
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| Publication Statement
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Jefferson, N.C. :: McFarland,, c2008
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ix, 234 p. :: ill. ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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9780786434435 (softcover : alk. paper)
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: 0786434430 (softcover : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-228) and index
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| Contents
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The medieval imaginary -- Time machines -- The waywardness of cinematic pastiche in First knight and A knight's tale -- Shooting the messenger : Luc Besson at war with Joan of Arc -- Theaters of war : paracinematic returns to the Kingdom of heaven -- Digital divagations in a hyperreal Camelot : Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur -- Postmedieval paranoia : the new Middle Ages of Night watch and The Da Vinci code
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| Abstract
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"The work introduces rapidly burgeoning field of medieval film studies; explores how a vast array of films contributes to the modern vision of life in the Middle Ages; is concerned with how time itself functions in cinematic representations of the medieval; and offers detailed considerations of specific examples of representations of medievalism in recent films"--Provided by publisher
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| Subject
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Middle Ages in motion pictures
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| Dewey Classification
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791.43/658401
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| LC Classification
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PN1995.9.M52H39 2008
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