More Middle Ages on Screen? Reconsidering The Reel Middle Ages (A Roundtable)
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Organizer Name
Michael A. Torregrossa
Organizer Affiliation
Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Presider Name
Susan L. Aronstein
Presider Affiliation
Univ. of Wyoming
Paper Title 1
Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven (2005): Medieval History as Caricature
Presenter 1 Name
June-Ann Greeley
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Sacred Heart Univ.
Paper Title 2
Postmodern Medieval: BBC's Robin Hood Series (2006-09)
Presenter 2 Name
Mikee Delony
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Abilene Christian Univ.
Paper Title 3
What's Love Got to Do with It?: Kevin Reynold's Tristan & Isolde (2006)
Presenter 3 Name
Kate McGrath
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Central Connecticut State Univ.
Paper Title 4
The Legend Continues: Exploring the Development of Arthur in Guy Ritchie's The Knights of the Round Table: King Arthur (2016)
Presenter 4 Name
Kayla Sanderson
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Abilene Christian Univ.
Start Date
12-5-2016 7:30 PM
Session Location
Bernhard 158
Description
In furtherance of the mission of the Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages, the goal of this roundtable session is to revisit and expand the ground-breaking work done by Kevin J. Harty in The Reel Middle Ages: American, Western and Eastern European, Middle Eastern and Asian Films about Medieval Europe (1999) by presenting a wider (if not the widest possible) portrait of Medieval Studies on screen by both offering new texts for discussion and reclaiming older ones that have been previously neglected by medievalists. We hope that a greater understanding and appreciation of the complete corpus of medievalisms on screen will benefit our teaching and scholarship and result in more thoughtful reflections on the reception of the medieval past through the contemporary interpretations of Middle Ages most known to the general public.
More Middle Ages on Screen? Reconsidering The Reel Middle Ages (A Roundtable)
Bernhard 158
In furtherance of the mission of the Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages, the goal of this roundtable session is to revisit and expand the ground-breaking work done by Kevin J. Harty in The Reel Middle Ages: American, Western and Eastern European, Middle Eastern and Asian Films about Medieval Europe (1999) by presenting a wider (if not the widest possible) portrait of Medieval Studies on screen by both offering new texts for discussion and reclaiming older ones that have been previously neglected by medievalists. We hope that a greater understanding and appreciation of the complete corpus of medievalisms on screen will benefit our teaching and scholarship and result in more thoughtful reflections on the reception of the medieval past through the contemporary interpretations of Middle Ages most known to the general public.