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This book uncovers the hidden history of the medieval in film. From the earliest silent films to recent blockbusters, medieval topics and plots set between 500 and 1500 AD have played an important but overlooked role in the development of cinema. This is the first book to define medieval films as a group, and trace their history from silent film via Nazi cinema to Hollywood and recent European co-productions. Essential reading for medievalists who care about the present, and film students and scholars who care about the past, this book is ideal reading for introductory courses on the Middle Ages, and on history and film.

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'In this seriously smart book Bettina Bildhauer demonstrates that medieval film is a genre that, far from merely providing an escape hatch for a pressured and disillusioned modernity, takes up and meets head on the challenges modernity poses ... In a series of brilliant readings Bildhauer opens up the strange temporalities and posthuman bodies of medieval film, situating them at the heart of twentieth- and twenty-first century concerns.' - Carolyn Dinshaw, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and English, New York University 'Filming the Middle Ages maps a cinematic landscape of surprising compass, directing our gaze from the Weimar films Faust and Destiny to the CGI spectacle of Beowulf. Space and time, the perennial subjects of film study, acquire a charged potential in this exceptional book, which marks a fresh beginning in genre analysis. With lucid intelligence, Bettina Bildhauer has created a brilliant, engaging work that will define the field.' - Robert Burgoyne, Professor and Chair of Film Studies, University of St Andrews

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Bettina Bildhauer is lecturer in the Department of German, University of St Andrews. She is the co-editor of The Monstrous Middle Ages (2003) and Medieval Film (2009), and author of Medieval Blood (2007).

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