| Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media 2008 Edition Contributor(s): Burt, R. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0230601251 ISBN-13: 9780230601253 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2008 Annotation: This collection examines a wide range of films and offers a dialogical model of film that preconceives the past and present as the remediation of old media by newer media. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - History | Social History - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 791.436 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.15 lbs) 294 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media contextualizes historical films in an innovative way - not only relating them to the history of cinema, but also to premodern and early modern media. This philological approach to the (pre)history of cinema engages both old media such as scrolls, illuminated manuscripts, the Bayeux Tapestry, and new digital media such as DVDs, HD DVDs, and computers. Burt examines the uncanny repetitions that now fragment films into successively released alternate cuts and extras (footnote tracks, audiocommentaries, and documentaries) that (re)structure and reframe historical films, thereby presenting new challenges to historicist criticism and film theory. With a double focus on recursive narrative frames and the cinematic paratexts of medieval and early modern film, this book calls our attention to strange, sometimes opaque phenomena in film and literary theory that have previously gone unrecognized. |