Filming the Middle Ages Book

What is Medieval Film? An Introduction
(film: The Blind Director)  

Part I: Time’s Bow

1. The Non-linear Time of Medieval Film
(films: Faust and Destiny)

2. The Medieval Dead Reanimated
(films: Golem, Hard to Be a God, Waxworks, The Seventh Seal, and Siegfried)

3. Queer Time
(films: Hamlet, Lady Venus and her Devil, Dreamship Surprise, Abelard, Joan of Arc, Ferryman Maria, and The Immortal Heart)

Part II: Lethal Letters

4. The Dangerous Power of Writing
(films: The Secret of Kells, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Pope Joan, and Sign of the Pagan)

5. The Printing Press vs the Cathedral
(films: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Copernicus, and The Adventures of Don Quixote)

6. Detecting the Middle Ages
(films: The Da Vinci Code, A Canterbury Tale, The Name of the Rose)

Part III: Human Limits

7. The Birth of the Leader from the Collective
(films: Condottieri, Luther, and Alexander Nevsky)

8. The Nation’s Lost Past
(films: Nibelungen Films, 1924, 1966, 2004)

9. Animation and the Human between Animal and Cyborg
(films: Jester Till, Beowulf, and The Adventures of Prince Ahmed)

Film’s Reliance on Medievalism: A Conclusion

References

Acknowledgements

Index of Medieval Films General Index