Hollywood in the Holy Land : essays on film depictions of the Crusades and Christian-Muslim clashes / edited by Nickolas Haydock and E.L. Risden.
"An exciting new work in the burgeoning field of movie medievalism, this collection of essays focuses on film representations of the Crusades, other medieval East/West encounters, and the modern inheritance of encounters between orientalist fantasy and apocalyptic conspiracy. The essays themselves m...
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| Language: | English |
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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland,
[2009], ©2009.
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| Physical Description: | viii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- "The unseen cross upon the breast" : medievalism, orientalism, and discontent / Nickolas Haydock
- Framing the West, staging the East : set design, location, and landscape in cinematic medievalism / John M. Ganim
- Homeland security : northern Crusades through the East-European eyes of Alexander Nevsky and the Nevsky tradition / Nickolas Haydock
- Now starring in the Third Crusade : depictions of Richard I and Saladin in films and television series / Lorraine Kochanske Stock
- SaladiNasser : Nasser's political crusade in El naser salah ad din / Paul B. Sturtevant
- "La geste que Turoldus declinet" : history and authorship in Frank Cassenti's Chanson de Roland / Lynn Ramey
- Agenda layered upon agenda : Anthony Mann's 1961 film El Cid / Kevin J. Harty
- El Cid : defeat of the Cresentade / Tom Shippey
- Nobody but the other buddy : Hollywood, the Crusades, and buddy pictures / E.L. Risden
- Medieval times : bodily temporalities in The thief of Bagdad (1924), The thief of Bagdad (1940), and Aladdin (1992) / Kathleen Coyne Kelly
- Chivalric conspiracies : Templar romance and the redemption of history in National treasure and The Da Vinci code / Susan Aronstein and Robert Torry
- On the border : merging East and West in Cadfael's twelfth-century Shropshire / William F. Hodapp
- Movie millenarianism : Left behind, Script/ure and the sleeping dragon / Christopher Powers
- Resisting Manichean delirium / E.L. Risden.