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

Book Details


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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in

Jefferson, N.C

The Physical Object

Pagination

p. cm.

Number of pages

319

Edition Identifiers

Open Library

OL23184578M

ISBN 13

9780786441563

LCCN

2008055208

OCLC/WorldCat

277136412

LibraryThing

9051078

Goodreads

5898381

Work Identifiers

Work ID

OL18696603W

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