{"product_id":"9781861898081","title":"Filming the Middle Ages","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this groundbreaking account of film history, Bettina Bildhauer shows how from the earliest silent films to recent blockbusters, medieval topics and plots have played an important but overlooked role in the development of cinema.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFilming the Middle Ages \u003c\/i\u003eis the first book to define medieval films as a group and trace their history from silent film in Weimar Germany to Hollywood and then to recent European co-productions. Bildhauer provides incisive new interpretations of classics like Murnau’s \u003ci\u003eFaust\u003c\/i\u003e and Eisenstein’s \u003ci\u003eAlexander Nevsky\u003c\/i\u003e, and she rediscovers some forgotten works like Douglas Sirk’s \u003ci\u003eSign of the Pagan\u003c\/i\u003e and Asta Nielsen’s \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e. As Bildhauer explains, both art house films like \u003ci\u003eThe Seventh Seal\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Passion of Joan of Arc \u003c\/i\u003eand popular films like \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eThe Da Vinci Code\u003c\/i\u003e cleverly use the Middle Ages to challenge modern ideas of historical progress, to find alternatives to a print-dominated culture, and even to question what makes us human. \u003ci\u003eFilming the Middle Ages\u003c\/i\u003e pays special attention to medieval animated and detective films and provactively demonstrates that the invention of cinema itself is considered a return to the Middle Ages by many film theorists and film makers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFilming the Middle Ages \u003c\/i\u003eis ideal reading for medievalists with a stake in the contemporary and film scholars with an interest in the distant past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reaktion Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050234888432,"sku":"9781861898081","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781861898081_p0.jpg?v=1763600887","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781861898081","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}