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.

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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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Summary

This is a collection of essays that study the contemporary cultural depictions of medievalism. The book attempts to unravel distortions that tend to domesticate the era and represent it as an extension of modern life. Several authors claim that modernity is so radically different to medieval life that we can only view the past as an extension of the present, rather than as radically different. The present distorts, and often politicizes the past, and these essays explore how everything from commercials, and video games, to the war on terror can contain elements of neo-medieval revisionism.