Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture Book

Introduction: Now and Then Gail Ashton Daniel T. Kline 1

1 The YouTube Prioress: Anti-Semitism and Twenty-First Century Participatory Culture Candace Barrington 13

2 Animated Conversations in Nottingham: Disney's Robin Hood (1973) Andrew Lynch 29

3 Virginia Woolf's Middle Ages Steve Ellis 43

4 Dario Fo's Mistero Buffo and the Left-Modernist Reclamation of Medieval Popular Culture Louise D'Arcens 57

5 Acephalic History: A Bataillian Reading of Monty Python and the Holy Grail Daniel T. Kline 71

6 Medievalism and Periodization in Frozen River and The Second Shepherds' Play: Environment, Class, Miracle Robert S. Sturges 85

7 Time Travel, Pulp Fictions, and Changing Attitudes toward the Middle Ages: Why You Can't Get Renaissance on Somebody's Ass Steve Guthrie 99

8 H. P. Lovecraft's "Unnamable" Middle Ages Brantley L. Bryant 113

9 Confession, Contrition, and the Rhetoric of Tears: Medievalism and Reality Television Angela Jane Weisl 129

10 Robin Hood, Frenched Richard Utz 145

11 Brief Encounters: Arthur's Epic Journey in Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur (2005) Leslie Coote 159

12 "My other world": Historical Reflections and Refractions in Modern Arthurian Fantasy Philippa Semper 173

13 Queer Origins, Deformed Lines: Seeding the Future in Torchwood's "Children of Earth" Gail Ashton 187

14 The Medieval Entertainment Channel: The Shrek Quartet Kathleen Coyne Kelly 203

Bibliography 219

List of Contributors 233

Index 237