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Hollywood Knights: Arthurian Cinema and the Politics of Nostalgia

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Availability:In StockContributor:S. AronsteinSeries:Studies in Arthurian and Courtly CulturesPublish date:2005-10-13Pages:264
Language:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9781403966490ISBN-10:1403966494UPC:9781403966490Book Category:Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Medieval, Film, SociologyBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:8.56 x 5.96 x 0.76 inchesWeight:0.9215Product ID:SCXD81NR2A
Hollywood Knights examines Hollywood Arthuriana as political nostalgia offered to American viewers during times of cultural crisis: the red scare of the 1950s, the breakdown of traditional authority in the 1960s and 1970s, the turn to the right in the 1980s and the redemption of masculine and national authority in the 1990s. Its analysis of these films explores their proposal of an ideal past - an Americanized Camelot and a democratized chivalry - as the solution to the problems of a troubled present, a solution that will ensure prosperity in the homeland and a globally beneficial American authority abroad.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9781403966490ISBN-10:1403966494UPC:9781403966490Book Category:Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Medieval, Film, SociologyBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:8.56 x 5.96 x 0.76 inchesWeight:0.9215Product ID:SCXD81NR2A
Susan Aronstein is Professor of English at the University of Wyoming, USA.
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

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2005 Edition

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S. Aronstein

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