Neomedievalism in the media [electronic resource] : essays on film, television, and electronic games / edited by Carol L. Robinson and Pamela Clements ; with a preface by Richard Utz.
by
 
Robinson, Carol L.

ISBN
9780773421295

Title
Neomedievalism in the media [electronic resource] : essays on film, television, and electronic games / edited by Carol L. Robinson and Pamela Clements ; with a preface by Richard Utz.

Author
Robinson, Carol L.

Publication Information
Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.

Physical Description
1 online resource (424 pages, 10 leaves of plates) : color illustrations

Contents
Introduction: neomedievalism in a vortext of discourse: film, television, and digital games / Carol L. Robinson -- Remembering dismembering: reading the violated body medievally / Leslie A. Coote -- Neomedieval trauma: the cinematic hyperreality of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury tales / Pamela Clements -- The use of nature: representing religion in medieval film / Christopher Roman -- Neo-Bushido: neomedieval anime and Japanese essence / Jennifer deWinter -- "You're still living in the Middle Ages!": time travel in Doctor Who and pseudo-historical, neomedieval alternate realities / Dave Rolinson -- "What do we do? hop on a bus to medieval times?": the use of medievalism in television fiction / Roderick W. McDonald -- "What's in your wallet?": how to construct an "authentic" Middle Ages / Alison Tara Walker -- The new scriptoria: neomedievalism and online textual communities / Lauryn Mayer -- Gaming with Odin: myth, context, and reconstruction of Hnefa-tafl, an Old Norse board game / Leon Wild -- The name of the game: misuses of neomedievalism in computerized role-playing games / Clay Kinchen Smith -- Commodifying the medieval in magic online / KellyAnn Fitzpatrick -- Blood will out: genealogy as destiny in medieval(ist) gaming / Amy S. Kaufman & Cory Grewell -- "For your labor I will give you treasure enough": labor and the third-estate in medieval-themed role-playing games / Kevin Moberly & Brent Moberly -- Neo-Tolkienism: plays upon playing with J.R.R. Tolkien's Playing with language / Carol L. Robinson & Pamela Clements -- "I'm not dead, yet!"-tracing the Pythonesque in neomedievalist media / Carol L. Robinson -- Epilogue: re-creating the medieval world / Terry Jones.

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Subject Term
Middle Ages in motion pictures.
 
Medievalism in motion pictures.
 
Middle Ages on television.
 
Medievalism on television.
 
Middle Ages in computer games.
 
Medievalism in computer games.

Added Author
Robinson, Carol L.
 
Clements, Pamela.

Format
Electronic Resources

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Publication Date
2012

Publication Information
Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.


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791.43658207 231:E-BOOK11:ONLINEAvailable for online access and/or download