Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media write by R. Burt. This book was released on 2016-04-30. Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Cambridge Companion to Medievalism
The Cambridge Companion to Medievalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to Medievalism write by Louise D'Arcens. This book was released on 2016-03-10. The Cambridge Companion to Medievalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An introduction to medievalism offering a balance of accessibility and sophistication, with comprehensive overviews as well as detailed case studies.
Pleasing Everyone
Pleasing Everyone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pleasing Everyone write by Jeffrey Knapp (Professor of English). This book was released on 2017. Pleasing Everyone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shakespeare's plays were immensely popular in their own day -- so why do we refuse to think of them as mass entertainment? In Pleasing Everyone, author Jeffrey Knapp opens our eyes to the uncanny resemblance between Renaissance drama and the incontrovertibly mass medium of Golden-Age Hollywood cinema. Through fascinating explorations of such famous plays as Hamlet, The Roaring Girl, and The Alchemist, and such celebrated films as Citizen Kane, The Jazz Singer, and City Lights, Knapp challenges some of our most basic assumptions about the relationship between art and mass audiences. Above all, Knapp encourages us to resist the prejudice that mass entertainment necessarily simplifies and cheapens whatever it touches. As Knapp shows, it was instead the ceaseless pressure to please everyone that helped generate the astonishing richness and complexity of Renaissance drama as well as of Hollywood film.
Beowulf in Contemporary Culture
Beowulf in Contemporary Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beowulf in Contemporary Culture write by David Clark. This book was released on 2019-11-29. Beowulf in Contemporary Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection explores Beowulf’s extensive impact on contemporary culture across a wide range of forms. The last 15 years have seen an intensification of scholarly interest in medievalism and reimaginings of the Middle Ages. However, in spite of the growing prominence of medievalism both in academic discourse and popular culture—and in spite of the position Beowulf itself holds in both areas—no study such as this has yet been undertaken. Beowulf in Contemporary Culture therefore makes a significant contribution both to early medieval studies and to our understanding of Beowulf’s continuing cultural impact. It should inspire further research into this topic and medievalist responses to other aspects of early medieval culture. Topics covered here range from film and television to video games, graphic novels, children’s literature, translations, and versions, along with original responses published here for the first time. The collection not only provides an overview of the positions Beowulf holds in the contemporary imagination, but also demonstrates the range of avenues yet to be explored, or even fully acknowledged, in the study of medievalism.
The Medieval Motion Picture
The Medieval Motion Picture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Medieval Motion Picture write by A. Johnston. This book was released on 2014-04-02. The Medieval Motion Picture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Providing new and challenging ways of understanding the medieval in the modern and vice versa, this volume highlights how medieval aesthetic experience breathes life into contemporary cinema. Engaging with the subject of time and temporality, the essays examine the politics of adaptation and our contemporary entanglement with the medieval.
