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The Medieval Hero on Screen: Representations from Beowulf to Buffy, Few figures have captured Hollywood's and the public's imagination as completely as have medieval heroes. Cast as chivalric knight, warrior princess, alpha male in tights, or an amalgamation, and as likely to appear in Hong Kong action flicks and spaghe, The Medieval Hero on Screen: Representations from Beowulf to Buffy
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  • The Medieval Hero on Screen: Representations from Beowulf to Buffy
  • Written by author Martha W. Driver
  • Published by McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 7/1/2004
  • Few figures have captured Hollywood's and the public's imagination as completely as have medieval heroes. Cast as chivalric knight, warrior princess, "alpha male in tights," or an amalgamation, and as likely to appear in Hong Kong action flicks and spaghe
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Foreword 1
Preface : Hollywood knights 5
Pt. I What's accuracy got to do with it? : historicity and authenticity in medieval film 19
Heroism and alienation through language in The lord of the rings 23
Authenticating realism in medieval film 38
Pt. II Kid crusaders : heroic children on film 53
Shirley Temple and the guys and dolls of the round table 57
Boys to men : medievalism and masculinity in Star wars and E.T. : the extra-terrestrial 73
Pt. III Iron maidens : medieval female heroes on film 91
Girls on film : medieval virginity in the cinema 94
Chivalric virtues in female form : Crouching tiger, hidden dragon's Wudan warrior princess as medieval hero 115
Not your typical knight : the emerging on-screen defender 133
Pt. IV Time bandits : contemporary appropriations 147
The hagiography of steel : the hero's weapon and its place in pop culture 151
The way of the wizard : reflections of Merlin on film 167
Hard day's knights : First knight, A knight's tale, and Black knight 192
Pt. V "Stond and delyver" : teaching the medieval movie 211
Oh, what a lovely war! Joan of arc on screen 217
The hero in the classroom 237


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