Hollywood Knights : Arthurian Cinema and the Politics of Nostalgia

Name: Hollywood Knights
Brand: Palgrave USA
SKU: 9781403966490
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ISBN: 9781403966490

2005 ed.

by S. Aronstein

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Format Hardback

Book Series Arthurian and Courtly Cultures

ISBN-10 1403966494

ISBN-13 9781403966490

Edition 2005 ed.

Publisher Palgrave USA

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 13th, 2005

Print length 264 Pages

Product Classification: Films, cinema Films, cinema

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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.

Hollywood Knights examines the role played by Hollywood films in America''s appropriation of the medieval past in times of cultural crisis. It analyzes the Arthurian films produced during the red scare of the 1950s, the breakdown of traditional authority in the 1960s and ''70s, the turn to the right in the 1980s, and the redemption of national and masculine authority in the 1990s, arguing that these films propose an idealized past--an American Camelot and a democratic chivalry--to solve the problems of a troubled present, ensure prosperity at home, and extend a beneficial American authority abroad. Movies discussed include The Knights of the Round Table, The Sword in the Stone, Camelot, the Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies, Excalibur, and The Fisher King.

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