Kevin J. Harty, professor and formerly chair of English and coordinator of the Undergraduate General Education Core at La Salle University in Philadelphia, is associate editor of Arthuriana, the official journal of the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society (of which he is the former president). He has previously written or edited 14 books, including ground-breaking studies of depictions of the Middle Ages on film. Scott Manning has published a book on Joan of Arc, as well as essays in Studies in Medievalism, Film & History, and The Year's Work in Medievalism and is co-chair of the Medieval & Renaissance Area for the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association.

Table of Contents

Preface

The Middle Ages, from Real to Reel: An Introduction

Kevin J. Harty and Scott Manning

Accidents of Time and Timing: The Seventh Seal (1957) and Black Death (2010)

Dorsey Armstrong

The Consolation of Medievalism in Vincent Ward's The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988)

Helen Young

Francis of Assisi: Making a ­Twelfth-Century Saint Accessible to Twentieth-and ­Twenty-First-Century Audiences

Francis Berna

The Archbishop and the King: Peter Glenville's Becket (1964)

Jonathan Good

The Book of Joan of Arc on Trial: Dreyer and Bresson

Gail Orgelfinger

The Northman's Place in Viking Film History

Zachary J. Melton

"A decadent and ­child-murdering Wali": The Targeted Racialization of the "Arab Sectarian" in Youssef Chahine's Saladin the Victorious (1963)

Tirumular (Drew) Narayanan

Medieval Scotland on Film: Braveheart and the Scottish Discursive Imaginary

Laura S. Harrison and Andrew B.R. Elliott

Making Padanians: Barbarossa (2009) and Repurposing the Myth of the Lombard League

Scott Manning

The Illusion of Musical Authenticity in Alexander Nevsky (1938)

John Haines

On the Queerness of England's King John, as Captured in 473 Years of Stage and Screen Portrayals

Tison Pugh

The Depths of Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic

Karl Fugelso

"Nevertheless, she persisted": Marginalizing the Other at the Intersection of Gender and Race in Fritz Lang's Film Kriemhilds Rache (Kriemhild's Revenge)

Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand

Marcel Carné's Les Visiteurs du soir and the Principle of "Included Third"

Raeleen Chai-Elsholz

Authenticity, Neoliberalism, and Socialism: The Name of the Rose (1986)

Richard Utz

Ridley Scott's The Last Duel and Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring in Dialog: From Shame Culture to Guilt Culture

Sandra Gorgievski

"Are you a woman or a blacksmith?" ­Cross-Sex Friendship Bonds in Brian Helgeland's A Knight's Tale

Richard Sévère

"Beware the Jabberwock": Terry Gilliam's Fractured Fairy Tale

Susan Aronstein and Taran Drummond

David Lowery's The Green Knight (2021): Authenticity and Accuracy, Historicons and Easter Eggs

Kevin J. Harty

Bibliography

About the Contributors

Index