The Medieval Motion Picture : The Politics of Adaptation (The New Middle Ages)

Johnston, Andrew James (EDT)/ Rouse, Margitta (EDT)/ Hinz, Philipp (ED

Palgrave Macmillan（2014/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 233 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780230112506
• DDC分類 791.43658

Full Description

Providing new and challenging ways of understanding the medieval in the modern and vice versa, this volume highlights how medieval aesthetic experience breathes life into contemporary cinema. Engaging with the subject of time and temporality, the essays examine the politics of adaptation and our contemporary entanglement with the medieval.

Contents

Introduction: Temporalities of Adaptation; Andrew James Johnston and Margitta Rouse 1. "Now is the time": Shakespeare's Medieval Temporalities in Akira Kurosawa's Ran; Jocelyn Keller and Wolfram R. Keller 2. Dracula's Times: Adapting the Middle Ages in Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula; Cordula Lemke 3. Rethinking Anachronism for Medieval Film in Richard Donner's Timeline; Margitta Rouse 4. Otherness Redoubled and Refracted: Intercultural Dialogues in The Thirteenth Warrior; Judith Klinger 5. Crisis Discourse and Art Theory: Richard Wagner's Legacy in Films; Veith von Fürstenberg and Kevin Reynolds Stefan Keppler-Tasaki 6. Adaptation as Hyperreality: The (A)historicism of Trauma in Robert Zemeckis's Beowulf; Philipp Hinz and Margitta Rouse 7. Perils of Generation: Incest, Romance and the Proliferation of Narrative in Game of Thrones; Martin Bleisteiner 8. Arthurian Myth and Cinematic Horror: M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense; Hans Jürgen Scheuer 9. Marian Re-writes the Legend: The Temporality of Archaeological Remains in Richard Lester's Robin and Marian; Andrew James Johnston Bibliography