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Movie Medievalism: The Imaginary Middle Ages

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Movie Medievalism: The Imaginary Middle Ages - Haydock, Nickolas
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This work offers a theoretical introduction to the portrayal of medievalism in popular film. Employing the techniques of film criticism and theory, it moves beyond the simple identification of error toward a poetics of this type of film, sensitive to both cinema history and to the role these films play in constructing what the author terms the "medieval imaginary." The opening two chapters introduce the rapidly burgeoning field of medieval film studies, viewed through the lenses of Lacanian psychoanalysis and the Deleuzian ...

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Movie Medievalism: The Imaginary Middle Ages 2008, McFarland and Company, Inc., Jefferson

ISBN-13: 9780786434435

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