Hollywood in the Holy Land : essays on film depictions of the Crusades and Christian-Muslim clashes / edited by Nickolas Haydock and E.L. Risden.
Haydock, Nickolas.; Risden, Edward L., 1957-
2009
PN1995.9.M52 H65 2009 (Mapit)
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Title Hollywood in the Holy Land : essays on film depictions of the Crusades and Christian-Muslim clashes / edited by Nickolas Haydock and E.L. Risden.
ISBN 9780786441563 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0786441569 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication Details Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2009.
Language English
Description viii, 311 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number PN1995.9.M52 H65 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.43/643580907
Summary "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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmographies.
Added Author Haydock, Nickolas.
Risden, Edward L., 1957-
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"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 : northern 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
Resisting Manichean delirium / E.L. Risden.

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