Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture

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Drawing from an eclectic mix of scholars from the US, UK, and Australia, Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture examines the persistence of medieval themes, characters, and situations in a variety of media from reality television to Virginia Woolf, Arthurian film to Disney animation, Shrek to historical fantasy. Each essay demonstrates that the Middle Ages are not relegated to a static past but continue to fashion a vital presence in contemporary popular culture, changing our assumptions about the flow of history and the creation of the present.

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Name in long format: medieval-afterlives-in-popular-culture
ISBN-10: 0230337341
ISBN-13: 9780230337343
Book pages: 258
Book language: en
Edition: 2012
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.60 (h) x 0.70 (d)

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