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This collection of new essays is the first to study film depictions of the quest for the Holy Grail--the holy Christian relic of legend supposedly used by Jesus at the Last Supper. Scholars from a range of disciplines discuss American, Australian and European films that offer fresh perspectives on this enduring myth of the Arthurian world and Western culture, including The Silver Chalice (1954), Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Excalibur (1981), The Road Warrior (1981), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Fisher King (1991), The Da Vinci Code (2006), The Waterboy (1998), and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead (2009).
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
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-Jürgen Syberberg's Parsifal: Remystifying Kundry (Jon Sherman)
"Lovely Filth": Monty Python and the Matter of the Holy Grail (Christine M. Neufeld)
John Boorman's Excalibur and the Irrigating Light of the Grail (Raeleen Chai-Elsholz with 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 Spielberg's 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 Grail, Schlocky Grail (David W. Marshall)
About the Contributors
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