Kevin J. Harty et Scott Manning (dir.), Cinema Medievalia. New Essays on the Reel Middle Ages, Jefferson, McFarland, 2024.

This collection of original essays presents new scholarship on nearly three dozen feature-length films, including silent films, animated films, films in black and white, and films in technicolor, along with other, shorter examples of cinematic medievalism.
Written by contributors from around the globe with a wide variety of backgrounds, the essays in this volume take a critical approach to one of the most popular forms of medivalism. This book presents a full century of cinematic depictions of the Middle Ages, with new examinations of works such as The Seventh Seal, God’s Fool, La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, Saladin the Victorious, Dante’s Inferno: An Animated Epic, and A Knight’s Tale, among others.

Table des matières

Preface 1. The Middle Ages, from Real to Reel: An Introduction. Kevin J. Harty and Scott Manning 3
Accidents of Time and Timing: The Seventh Seal (1957) and Black Death (2010). Dorsey Armstrong 23
The Consolation of Medievalism in Vincent Ward’s The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988). Helen Young 40
Francis of Assisi: Making a ­Twelfth-Century Saint Accessible to Twentieth–and ­Twenty-First-Century Audiences. Francis Berna 58
The Archbishop and the King: Peter Glenville’s Becket (1964). Jonathan Good 79
The Book of Joan of Arc on Trial: Dreyer and Bresson. Gail Orgelfinger 97
The Northman’s Place in Viking Film History. Zachary J. Melton 112
“A decadent and ­child-murdering Wali”: The Targeted Racialization of the “Arab Sectarian” in Youssef Chahine’s Saladin the Victorious (1963). Tirumular (Drew) Narayanan 128
Medieval Scotland on Film: Braveheart and the Scottish Discursive Imaginary. Laura S. Harrison and Andrew B.R. Elliott 145
Making Padanians: Barbarossa (2009) and Repurposing the Myth of the Lombard League. Scott Manning 163
The Illusion of Musical Authenticity in Alexander Nevsky (1938). John Haines 181
On the Queerness of England’s King John, as Captured in 473 Years of Stage and Screen Portrayals. Tison Pugh 198
The Depths of Dante’s Inferno: An Animated Epic. Karl Fugelso 219
“Nevertheless, she persisted”: Marginalizing the Other at the Intersection of Gender and Race in Fritz Lang’s Film Kriemhilds Rache (Kriemhild’s Revenge). Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand 234
Marcel Carné’s Les Visiteurs du soir and the Principle of “Included Third”. Raeleen Chai-Elsholz 252
Authenticity, Neoliberalism, and Socialism: The Name of the Rose (1986). Richard Utz 270
Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel and Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring in Dialog: From Shame Culture to Guilt Culture. Sandra Gorgievski 288
“Are you a woman or a blacksmith?” ­Cross-Sex Friendship Bonds in Brian Helgeland’s A Knight’s Tale. Richard Sévère 307
“Beware the Jabberwock”: Terry Gilliam’s Fractured Fairy Tale. Susan Aronstein and Taran Drummond 325
David Lowery’s The Green Knight (2021): Authenticity and Accuracy, Historicons and Easter Eggs. Kevin J. Harty 343
Bibliography 361
About the Contributors 365
Index 369

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