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Author:   Kevin J. Harty
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.422kg
ISBN:  

9780786460441

ISBN 10:   078646044
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   22 April 2011
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Preface      Introduction: “Save Us, O Lord, from the Fury of the Northmen”; or, “Do You Know What’s in Your Wallet?”      KEVIN J. HARTY The Trope of the Scopic in The Vikings (1958)      KATHLEEN COYNE KELLY Guess Who’s Coming to Plunder? Or, Disorientation and Desire in The Long Ships (1964)      DONALD L. HOFFMAN “To be, or not to be”—King: Clive Donner’s Alfred the Great (1969)      CHRISTOPHER A. SNYDER Valiant and Villainous Vikings      ALAN LUPACK Silly Vikings: Eichinger, Hickox, and Lorenz’s Anglo-German-Irish Production of Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant (1997)      JOSEPH M. SULLIVAN When Civilization Was Less Civilized: Erik the Viking (1989)      SUSAN ARONSTEIN “The Love of All Mankind but Also the Love of One Woman Alone”: Hrafn Gunnlaugsson’s Shadow of the Raven (1988)      JOAN TASKER GRIMBERT and CLAUDIA BORNHOLDT Different Pathfinders, Different Destinations      ROBERTA DAVIDSON Who’s Savage Now?!—The Vikings in North America      KEVIN J. HARTY Call of the Wild: Culture Shock and Viking Masculinities in The 13th Warrior (1999)      ELIZABETH S. SKLAR Harrying an Infinite Horizon: The Ethics of Expansionism in Outlander (2008)      DAVID W. MARSHALL Between Exploitation and Liberation: Viking Women and the Sexual Revolution      LAURIE A. FINKE and MARTIN B. SHICHTMAN Time Out of Joint: Why a Gaul Fought the Normans in Astérix and the Vikings (2005)      ANDREW B. R. ELLIOTT Northern Lite: A Brief History of Animated Vikings      MICHAEL N. SALDA The Vikings on Film: A Filmography      KEVIN J. HARTY About the Contributors      Index     

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this is a volume that has long been awaited --<i>Arthuriana</i>; such criticisms aside, though, this is still a useful exploration into the range of depictions of Vikings in cinema --<i>Parergon</i>.

"This is a volume that has long been awaited."" —Arthuriana."

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Kevin J. Harty, professor and formerly chair of English and coordinator of the Undergraduate General Education Core at La Salle University in Philadelphia, is associate editor of Arthuriana, the official journal of the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society (of which he is the former president). He has previously written or edited 14 books, including ground-breaking studies of depictions of the Middle Ages on film.

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