Hollywood in the Holy Land

Nickolas Haydock is professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez. In addition to movie medievalism and film, he also writes about medieval Scots literature. E.L. Risden, emeritus professor of English at St. Norbert College, lives in De Pere, Wisconsin, where he continues to write literary and movie scholarship, speculative fiction, and occasional poetry.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: “The Unseen Cross Upon the Breast:” Medievalism, Orientalism, and DiscontentNICKOLAS HAYDOCK      1. Framing the West, Staging the East: Set Design, Location, and Landscape in Cinematic MedievalismJOHN M. GANIM      2. Homeland Security: Northern Crusades through the East-European Eyes of Alexander Nevsky and the Nevsky TraditionNICKOLAS HAYDOCK      3. Now Starring in the Third Crusade: Depictions of Richard I and Saladin in Films and Television SeriesLORRAINE KOCHANSKE STOCK      4. SaladiNasser: Nasser’s Political Crusade in El Naser Salah Ad-DinPAUL B. STURTEVANT      5. “La geste que Turoldus declinet”: History and Authorship in Frank Cassenti’s Chanson de RolandLYNN RAMEY      6. Agenda Layered Upon Agenda: Anthony Mann’s 1961 Film El CidKEVIN J. HARTY      7. El Cid: Defeat of the CresentadeTOM SHIPPEY      8. Nobody but the Other Buddy: Hollywood, the Crusades, and Buddy PicturesE. L. RISDEN      9. Medieval Times: Bodily Temporalities in The Thief of Bagdad (1924), The Thief of Bagdad (1940), and Aladdin (1992)KATHLEEN COYNE KELLY      10. Chivalric Conspiracies: Templar Romance and the Redemption of History in National Treasure and The Da Vinci CodeSUSAN ARONSTEIN and ROBERT TORRY      11. On the Border: Merging East and West in Cadfael’s Twelfth-Century ShropshireWILLIAM F. HODAPP      12. Movie Millenarianism: Left Behind, Script/ure and the Sleeping DragonCHRISTOPHER POWERS      Epilogue: Resisting Manichean DeliriumE. L. RISDEN      About the Contributors      Index

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