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OverviewMedieval and Early Modern Film and Media contextualizes historical films in an innovative way - not only relating them to the history of cinema, but also to premodern and early modern media. This philological approach to the (pre)history of cinema engages both old media such as scrolls, illuminated manuscripts, the Bayeux Tapestry, and new digital media such as DVDs, HD DVDs, and computers. Burt examines the uncanny repetitions that now fragment films into successively released alternate cuts and extras (footnote tracks, audiocommentaries, and documentaries) that (re)structure and reframe historical films, thereby presenting new challenges to historicist criticism and film theory. With a double focus on recursive narrative frames and the cinematic paratexts of medieval and early modern film, this book calls our attention to strange, sometimes opaque phenomena in film and literary theory that have previously gone unrecognized. Full Product DetailsAuthor: R. BurtPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.436kg ISBN: 9780230105607ISBN 10: 0230105602 Pages: 279 Publication Date: 18 January 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsThe New Errat/a/i/cism: Philology, Film Theory, and Psychoanalysis The Medieval and Early Modern Cinemato-Graphosphere The Schlock of the Medieval: Of Manuscript and Film Prologues, Paratexts, and Parodies Re-embroidering the Bayeux Tapestry in Film and Media: The Flip Side of History in Opening and End Title Sequences The Passion of El Cid and the Circumfixion of Cinematic History: Stereo-Typology / Phanto-Mimesis / Cryptomorphoses Tele-Typing Cinematic History: The Religious Film Epic, Philology, and Wounding Writing K/Irakqing Up the Crusades: The Uncanny Mises-hors-scène of Kingdom of Heaven's Double DVDs Le détour de Martin Guerre: Anec-notes of Historical Film Advisors, Archival Aberrations, and the Uncanny Subject of the Academic Paratext Anec-Post-It-Note to Self: Freud, Greenblatt, and the New Historicist UncannyReviews'Burt's book reflects on the contemporary fascination with 'all things medieval,' and offers a comprehensive and ambitious examination of a wide range of films...Burt's book has much to offer scholars interested in the intersection of historical studes and literary and media theory.' - Parergon 'A marvelously rich and surprising book. Combining formal attentiveness with the giddy pleasures of the improbable detour, Burt's analysis of what he terms the 'philological uncanny' takes us from medieval illuminated manuscripts to digital media, from Shakespeare to spell-check, from the copyright page to the interpretive industry itself. Burt opens central, expansive questions about the logic of texts, about the character of historical time, even about the ongoing vexations of the academic unconscious.' - Christopher Pye, Professor of English, Williams College 'What if it was now possible to psychoanalyze our compulsive desire for historicism (old and new)? What if the arrival of the new media with its complex paratextual apparatus made legible the unconscious filmic techniques of contemporary literary critics? Burt's astonishingly ambitious Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media makes just this argument, moving effortlessly between seemingly disparate fields (historicism, film studies, and digital technologies) to offer a symptomatic reading of the 'historicist uncanny. - Julian Yates, author of Error, Misuse, Failure: Object Lessons from the English Renaissance 'This playful and lucid venture into the enduring popular appeal of the Middle Ages on film offers close readings of canonical works, but also brings refreshing energy and perspective to academic modes of critical reception. In this ground-breaking volume, Burt digs deep in the media history of medievalism, unearths the decomposing paratexts of cinematic representation, and confronts the uncanny middle-ages crisis of new historicism.' - Peter Krapp, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of California, Irvine 'Mapping the transition from medieval and early modern media onto the transition from celluloid to digital cinema, Burt offers brilliant and very witty close readings of a wide variety of major historical films. This breakthrough contribution to media studies reveals a history that is much, much stranger than heretofore imagined.' - Bryan Reynolds, Professor of Drama, University of California, Irvine Author InformationRichard Burt is Professor of English and Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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