by Harty, Kevin J
TitleThe Holy Grail on film : essays on the cinematic quest
Item typeBook
Author(s)Harty, Kevin J
ISBN
  • 9780786477852
  • 0786477857
LanguageEnglish
URLLink to original record
Notes
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Holy Grail, silent Grail / Kevin J. Harty -- The silver chalice: the once and future Grail / K.S. Whetter -- Lancelot du lac: Robert Bresson's Arthurian realism / Joan Tasker Grimbert -- Perceval of the avant-garde: Rohmer, Blank and von Trier / Alan Baragona -- Hans-Jørgen Syberberg's Parsifal: remystifying Kundry / Jon Sherman -- "Lovely filth": Monty Python and the matter of the Holy Grail / Christine Neufeld -- John Boorman's Excalibur and the irrigating light of the Grail / Raeleen Chai-Elsholz and Jean-Marc Elsholz -- The Da Vinci Code and the myth of history / Susan Aronstein -- Percival in Cooperstown: Arthurian legend, baseball -- mythology and the mediated quest in Barry Levinson's The natural / James Jesson -- -- Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King / Cory James Rushton -- A son, his father, some Nazis and the Grail: Lucas and Indiana Jones and The last crusade / Joseph M. Sullivan -- A Grail or a mirage? searching the wasteland of The Road Warrior / Paul B. Sturtevant -- The Grail as symbolic quest in Tarkovsky's Stalker / Andrew B.R. Elliott -- The waterboy and swamp chivalry: a Grail Knight for American teens / Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Shichtman -- Holy Grails, schlocky Grails / David W. Marshall -- About the contributors.
  • Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.
Physical descriptionix, 245 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

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