Hollywood in the Holy Land by Nickolas Haydock | Open Library (original) (raw)
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essays on film depictions of the Crusades and Christian-Muslim clashes
"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 make substantial contributions to our understanding of orientalist medievalism in film"--Provided by publisher.
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Subjects
East and West in motion pictures Crusades in motion pictures Middle Ages in motion pictures Middle ages in motion pictures
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Table of 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 : 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Jefferson, N.C
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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
319
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OL23184578M
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9780786441563
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OL18696603W
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