Excalibur is not a thing, something you can hold in your hand.
Excalibur is the good in you.
The power to do good, to stand up for what's right, to slay dragons, to capture bank robbers.
You always carry Excalibur in your heart.


Robert Tinnell, Kids of the Round Table (1995)

Sunday, January 8, 2023

Pugh on The Green Knight

Recently published in Arthuriana. Copies are available by subscription or from Project MUSE, if you're lucky enough to have access.


Pugh, Tison. "Seminal Semiotics and Pornographic Displeasures in David Lowery’s The Green Knight (2021)." Arthuriana, vol. 32 no. 3, Fall 2022, pp. 41-57. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/art.2022.0030.

Abstract:

In The Green Knight, a cinematic adaptation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, director David Lowery includes a lingering shot of Gawain’s ejaculate. Lowery reframes this pornographic image as an alienating, rather than pleasureful, experience; in so doing, he probes similar themes concerning displeasure’s effects as the Gawain-Poet.