Mass market medieval : essays on the Middle Ages in popular culture / edited by David W. Marshall.

Contents Chaucer for a new millennium : the BBC Canterbury tales / Kevin J. Harty -- "If I lay my hands on the grail" : Arthurianism and progressive rock / Paul Hardwick -- The sound of silents : aurality and medievalism in Benjamin Christensen's Häxan / Alison Tara Walker -- Antichrist superstars : the Vikings in hard rock and heavy metal / Simon Trafford, Aleks Pluskowski -- The future is what it used to be : medieval prophecy and popular culture / Stephen Yandell -- Idealized images of Wales in the fiction of Edith Pargeter/Ellis Peters / Lesley Jacobs -- Places don't have to be true to be true : the appropriation of King Arthur and the cultural value of tourist sites / Benjamin Earl -- "Accident my codlings" : sitcom, cinema and the re-writing of history in The blackadder / Katherine J. Lewis -- Medieval history and cultural forgetting : oppositional ethnography in The templar revelation / Hannah R. Johnson -- Teaching the Middle Ages / Carl James Grindley -- Virtually medieval : The age of kings interprets the Middle Ages / Daniel T. Kline -- A world unto itself : autopoietic systems and secondary worlds in Dungeons & dragons / David W. Marshall -- Anything different is good : incremental repetition, courtly love, and purgatory in Groundhog Day / William Racicot.
Abstract "The 14 essays in this book encompass diverse theoretical perspectives and are grouped loosely around distinct functions of medievalism, including the exposure of recent social concerns; the use of medieval images in modern political contexts; and the medieval's influence on products of today's popular culture"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2007001362
ISBN9780786429226 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0786429224 (pbk. : alk. paper)