Cinema Medievalia

<p> This collection of original essays presents new scholarship on nearly three dozen feature-length films including silent films animated films films in black and white and films in technicolor along with other shorter examples of cinematic medievalism. </p><p> Written by contributors from around the globe with a wide variety of backgrounds the essays in this volume take a critical approach to one of the most popular forms of medivalism. This book presents a full century of cinematic depictions of the Middle Ages with new examinations of works such as <I>The Seventh Seal</I> <I>God's Fool</I> <I>La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc</I> <I>Saladin the Victorious</I> <I>Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic</I> and <I>A Knight's Tale</I> among others. </p>