Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture [Hardcover]

This book is concerned with our ideological, technical and emotional investments in reclaiming medieval for contemporary popular culture. The authors illuminate both medieval and contemporary popular culture in surprising and productive ways while interrogating the many ways in which metamedievalism reinterprets and reconceptualises the medieval.1. 'The YouTube Prioress: Anti-Semitism and Twenty-First Century Participatory Culture' 2. 'Animated Conversations in Nottingham: Disney's Robin Hood (1973) ' 3. 'Virginia Woolf's Middle Ages' 4. 'Dario Fo's Mistero Buffo and the Left-Modernist Reclamation of Medieval Popular Culture' 5. 'Acephalic History: A Bataillian Reading of Monty Python and the Holy Grail' 6. 'Medievalism and Periodization in Frozen River and The Second Shepherds' Play: Environment, Class, Miracle' 7. 'Time Travel, Pulp Fictions, and Changing Attitudes Toward the Middle Ages: Why You Can't Get Renaissance on Somebody's Ass' 8. 'H. P. Lovecraft's Unnamable Middle Ages' 9. 'Confession, Contrition, and the Rhetoric of Tears: Medievalism and Reality Television,' 10. 'Robin Hood, Frenched' 11. 'Brief Encounters: Arthur's Epic Journey in Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur (2005)' 12. 'My other world': Historical Reflections and Refractions in Modern Arthurian Fantasy' 13. 'Queer Origins, Deformed Lines: Seeding the Future in Torchwood's 'Children of Earth'' 14. 'The Medieval Entertainment Channel: The Shrek Quartet'

'Spanning many centuries and multiple media, this collection will inform and delight specialists, generalists, and anyone else interested in how we shape the Middle Ages and they shape us. Through highly engaging case-studies, the authors thoroughly and thoughtfully explore the vast and sometimes surprising legacy of our medieval past. They challenge the most fundamental assumptions of (neo)medievalism and open new avenues of research into one of the most dynamic and wide-ranging fields in the humanities.' - Karl Fugelso, professor of Art Histol$