{"product_id":"silent-medievalisms-reimagining-the-middle-ages-during-films-foundational-era-hardcover","title":"Silent Medievalisms: Reimagining the Middle Ages During Film's Foundational Era - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTison Pugh\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSilent Medievalisms\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the prevalence of medieval narratives and tropes during cinema's silent era and explores the ways that silent movies use the past to communicate political, national, propagandistic, and social meanings in their present moment. Groundbreaking films such as \u003ci\u003eJoan the Woman\u003c\/i\u003e (1916), \u003ci\u003eDouglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood\u003c\/i\u003e (1922), \u003ci\u003eThe Passion of Joan of Arc\u003c\/i\u003e (1928), and several others provide a rare opportunity to ponder the intersection of the newest technologies with narratives that predate them by many centuries. Narrative themes and tropes are distinct from the technologies that (re)create them, yet they are imbricated within complex networks of possibility and production. Contributors consider the persistent restaging and appeal (even when problematic) of medieval tropes, illuminating the essential nature of the medieval to early cinema across geographies, methodologies, and ideologies. They examine the relationship between the old and the new, made oblique when the new would seem to eclipse the old as emergent technologies seismically shifted the ways in which audiences consumed narratives. Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eSilent Medievalisms\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how those technologies enabled diverse visions of the Middle Ages-historical, fantastical, political-in ways that other media did not. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Contributors: \u003cbr\u003e Kimberly Ball, Elizabeth Coggeshall, John Haines, Kevin J. Harty, Valerie B. Johnson, Tison Pugh, Sabina Rahman, Carol L. Robinson, Robert Squillace, Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand, Alfred Thomas, Laura E. Wangerin, Angela Jane Weisl\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTison Pugh is Pegasus Professor of English at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eBad Chaucer: The Great Poet's Greatest Mistakes in the \"Canterbury Tales,\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eQueer Oz: L. Frank Baum's Trans Tales and Other Astounding Adventures in Sex and Gender, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChaucer's (Anti-)Eroticisms and the Queer Middle Ages.\u003c\/i\u003e Angela Jane Weisl is Professor of English at Seton Hall University and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Persistence of Medievalism: Narrative Adventures in Contemporary Culture\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eConquering the Reign of Femeny: Gender and Genre in Chaucer's Romance.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 30, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53403640496435,"sku":"9780814216118","price":168.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/iwLnFY_DFF9780814216118.webp?v=1779915236","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/silent-medievalisms-reimagining-the-middle-ages-during-films-foundational-era-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}