Publisher's Synopsis
This collection of 19 original essays on medieval cinema is published coincidentally with the 25th anniversary of the publication of the editor's The Reel Middle Ages. These essays offer in-depth studies of nearly three dozen feature-length films, along with other, shorter examples of cinema medievalia. Hailing from Australia, Canada, England, France, Iceland, Scotland, and the United States, contributors bring a wide variety of backgrounds and critical approaches to the films discussed herein, which include silent films, animated films, films in black and white, and films in technicolor, among others. This collection presents a full century of cinematic depictions of the Middle Ages from the 1920s to 2021.
