The Holy Grail on Film

<p> This collection of new essays is the first to study film depictions of the quest for the Holy Grail--the holy Christian relic of legend supposedly used by Jesus at the Last Supper. Scholars from a range of disciplines discuss American Australian and European films that offer fresh perspectives on this enduring myth of the Arthurian world and Western culture including <I>The Silver Chalice</I> (1954) <I>Monty Python and the Holy Grail</I> (1975) <I>Excalibur</I> (1981) <I>The Road Warrior</I> (1981) <I>Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade</I> (1989) <I>The Fisher King</I> (1991) <I>The Da Vinci Code</I> (2006) <I>The Waterboy</I> (1998) and <I>Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead</I> (2009).</p>