Sunday, December 14, 2014
Re-Posted: The Middle Ages on Television
Coming Soon: The Holy Grail on Film
It's been a while since I last posted, but there are some exciting new developments in the field. The first is an interesting new collection edited by Kevin J. Harty, the most active proponent of Arthurian film/television studies. The book is due out this spring just in time for Kalamazoo. Details as follows:
Edited by Kevin J. Harty
Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-7785-2
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4766-2053-4
ca. 15 photos, notes, bibliography, index
softcover (7 x 10) 2015
Price: $45.00
Not Yet Published, Available Spring/Summer 2015
About the Book
This collection of new essays is the first to study film depictions of the quest for the Holy Grail—the Christian holy relic of legend supposedly used by Jesus at the Last Supper. Scholars and critics from a range of disciplines discuss American and European films that offer fresh perspectives on this enduring myth of the Arthurian world and Western culture, including The Silver Chalice (1954), Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Excalibur (1981), The Road Warrior (1981), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Fisher King (1991), The Da Vinci Code (2006), The Waterboy (1998), and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead (2009).
Complete contents will be posted separately once they are made available.
About the Editor
Kevin J. Harty is professor and chair of English, and Coordinator of the Undergraduate General Education Core, at La Salle University in Philadelphia and 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 is the author or editor of fourteen books, seven of which are on film and medieval studies.
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