A Knight at the Movies

A Knight at the Movies provides a lively and innovative examination of the historical content of films depicting the medieval period. The author dissects how each film interprets the period, considering their historical accuracy and how they project their contemporary era's obsessions and fears onto the past. It has an engaging structure, grouping together different films on particular historical subjects such as the Black Death, Robin Hood and Joan of Arc. This second edition has been updated throughout with discussion of newer films such as Robin Hood (2010); Black Death (2010); Kingdom of Heaven (2005); Valhalla Rising (2009) and includes a new chapter on Church and Gender Films.