Medieval History
From Palgrave/Macmillan: "Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media contextualizes historical films in an innovative way--not only relating them to the history of cinema, but also to premodern and early modern media. This philological approach to the (pre)history of cinema engages both old media such as scrolls, illuminated manuscripts, the Bayeux Tapestry, and new digital media such as DVDs, HD DVDs, and computers. Burt examines the uncanny repetitions that now fragment films into successively released alternate cuts and extras (footnote tracks, audiocommentaries, and documentaries) that (re)structure and reframe historical films, thereby presenting new challenges to historicist criticism and film theory. With a double focus on recursive narrative frames and the cinematic paratexts of medieval and early modern film, this book calls our attention to strange, sometimes opaque phenomena in film and literary theory that have previously gone unrecognized."
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Medieval History
Burt on Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media
- Us Company Gets Right To Remake Kurosawa Films
Splendent Media has signed a multiyear deal to represent worldwide rights (outside Japan) to 69 titles from filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, including 19 screenplays that were never produced. Kurosawa, who considered one of the most influential movie director?s...
- Hollywood Gets Mixed Reviews In History Class, Study Suggests
Students who learn history by watching historically based blockbuster movies may be doomed to repeat the historical mistakes portrayed within them, suggests a new study from Washington University in St. Louis. The study, forthcoming in the journal Psychological...
- Neomed & Media
It's been some time that this volume has been in the making, but now it is finally in print: Neo-medievalism in the Media: Essays on Film, Television, and Electronic Games, ed. by Carol L. Robinson and Pamela Clements. The original title, The Medieval...
- Disney's Medievalisms
Call for Papers: ?Disney?s Medievalisms? > From medieval fairs to modern films, the industries of popular culture continually revisit and reinvent the Middle Ages, entertaining audiences while generating a profit. And Disney?s--both Walt?s and the Corporation?s?contribution...
- The Passion Of Joan Of Arc, 1928
So, what would you expect to find in a forgotten janitor's closet in an insane asylum in Oslo, Norway? Dusty brooms, crusty old cleaning chemicals...and maybe a landmark silent film about Joan of Arc, believed to be long since lost to history? Well,...