Hollywood Knights: Arthurian Cinema and the Politics of Nostalgia

(Part of the Arthurian and Courtly Cultures Series)

by Susan Aronstein

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Hollywood Knights examines the role played by Hollywood films in America's appropriation of the medieval past in times of cultural crisis. It analyzes the Arthurian films produced during the red scare of the 1950s, the breakdown of traditional authority in the 1960s and '70s, the turn to the right in the 1980s, and the redemption of national and masculine authority in the 1990s, arguing that these films propose an idealized past--an American Camelot...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1403966494

ISBN13:9781403966490

Release Date:October 2005

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:264 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 8.6"

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Arts, Music & Photography Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Performing Arts Social Science Social Sciences

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Hollywood Knights: Arthurian Cinema and the Politics of Nostalgia

(Part of the Arthurian and Courtly Cultures Series)

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