Race, Class, and Gender in “Medieval” Cinema

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction: Filming the “other” Middle Ages....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Once, Present, and Future Kings: Kingdom of Heaven and the Multitemporality of Medieval Film....Pages 15-29
Chahine’s Destiny: Prophetic Nostalgia and the other Middle Ages....Pages 31-44
Reversing the Crusades: Hegemony, Orientalism, and Film Language in Youssef Chahine’s Saladin....Pages 45-58
Samurai on Shifting Ground: Negotiating the Medieval and the Modern in Seven Samurai and Yojimbo....Pages 59-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Vikings through the Eyes of an Arab Ethnographer: Constructions of the other in the 13th Warrior....Pages 75-89
Mission Historical, Or “[T]here Were a Hell of a Lot of Knights”: Ethnicity and Alterity in Jerry Bruckheimer’s King Arthur....Pages 91-106
Inner-City Chivalry in Gil Junger’s Black Knight: A South Central Yankee in King Leo’s Court....Pages 107-121
Queering the Medieval Dead: History, Horror, and Masculinity in Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead Trilogy....Pages 123-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
In Praise of Troubadourism: Creating Community in Occupied France, 1942–43....Pages 139-153
Sexing Warrior Women in China’s Martial Arts World: King Hu’s a Touch of Zen....Pages 155-167
The Hawk, the Wolf, and the Mouse: Tracing the Gendered other in Richard Donner’s Ladyhawke....Pages 169-182
Chaucer’s Man Show: Anachronistic Authority in Brian Helgeland’s a Knight’s Tale....Pages 183-197
The “other” Women of Sherwood: The Construction of Difference and Gender in Cinematic Treatments of the Robin Hood Legend....Pages 199-214
Back Matter....Pages 215-228