The Reel Middle Ages: American, Western and Eastern European, Middle Eastern and Asian Films About Medieval Europe

by Kevin J. Harty

Book Overview

Those tales of old--King Arthur, Robin Hood, The Crusades, Marco Polo, Joan of Arc--have been told and retold, and the tradition of their telling has been gloriously upheld by filmmaking from its very inception. From the earliest of Georges Melies's films in 1897, to a 1996 animated Hunchback of Notre Dame, film has offered not just fantasy but exploration of these roles so vital to the modern psyche. St. Joan has undergone the transition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786426578
• ISBN13: 9780786426577
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher