by Driver, Martha W; Ray, Sid
Book / 2004
TitleThe medieval hero on screen : representations from Beowulf to Buffy
Item typeBook
Author(s)
  • Driver, Martha W
  • Ray, Sid
ImprintJefferson, N.C. McFarland, 2004
ISBN0786419261
LanguageEnglish
URLLink to original record
Notes
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Foreword / Jonathan Rosenbaum -- Preface : Hollywood knights / Martha W. Driver and Sid Ray -- What's accuracy got to do with it? Historicity and authenticity in medieval film / Martha W. Driver -- Heroism and alienation through language in The lord of the rings / David Salo -- Authenticating realism in medieval film / William F. Woods -- Kid crusaders : heroic children on film / Martha W. Driver -- Shirley Temple and the Guys and dolls of the round table / Kevin J. Harty -- Boys to men : medievalism and masculinity in Star wars and E.T., the extra- terrestrial / Tom Henthorne -- Iron maidens : medieval female heroes on film / Martha W. Driver -- Girls on film : medieval virginity in the cinema / Anke Bernau -- Chivalric virtues in female form : Crouching tiger, hidden dragon's Wudan warrior princess as medieval hero / Diana E. Slampyak -- Not your typical knight : the emerging on- screen defender / Susan Butvin Sainato -- Time bandits : contemporary appropriations / Sid Ray -- The hagiography of steel : the hero's weapon and its place in pop culture / Carl James Grindley -- The way of the wizard : reflections of Merlin on film / Michael A. Torregrossa -- Hard day's knights : First knight, A knight's tale, and Black knight / Caroline Jewers -- "Stond and
  • delyvr" : teaching the medieval movie / Martha W. Driver - - Oh, what a lovely war! Joan of Arc on screen / Edward Benson -- The hero in the classroom / John M. Ganim.
  • Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CUY.
Physical descriptionviii, 268 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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2004
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Driver, Martha WRay, Sid
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McFarland
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