Note: Citations are based on reference standards. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. The specific requirements or preferences of your reviewing publisher, classroom teacher, institution or organization should be applied. Search Tips. Phrase Searching You can use double quotes to search for a series of words in a particular order. For example, World war II (with quotes) will give more precise results than World war II (without quotes). Wildcard Searching If you want to search for multiple variations of a word, you can substitute a special symbol (called a wildcard ) for one or more letters. Over the past generation, a new crop of scholars have looked at questions of race in the Middle Ages much more carefully than before. They have found that, among many other things, medieval people understood ideas of “race” fundamentally differently than we do today. Abstract. Youssef Chahine, Egypt’s most prolific and recognized auteur, is inalienably implicated in Otherness. While thoroughly embedded in Egyptian and Islamic culture, he is profoundly marked by his own situation as a Christian and the descendant of a Lebanese rather than an Egyptian family. The medieval film genre is not, in general, concerned with constructing a historically accurate past, but much analysis nonetheless centers on highlighting anachronisms. This book aims to help scholars and aficionados of medieval film think about how the re-creation of an often mythical past performs important cultural work for modern directors and viewers. It is also welcome that all involved, though at least primarily trained in other fields, prove themselves expert enough in all relevant matters cinematic to make this volume of interest to their colleagues in film studies.With its sustaining concentration on gender and otherness more generally, Race, Class, and Gender in Medieval Cinema. Race, class, and gender in medieval cinema edited by Lynn T. Ramey and Tison Pugh. New York : . Middle Ages in motion pictures. Race in motion pictures. Social classes in motion pictures. Sex role in motion pictures. Series. New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) Summary Contents. Introduction : filming the other middle ages / Tison Pugh and Lynn T. Ramey; 1. Once, present
Part of The New Middle Ages series, this book aims to help scholars and aficionados of medieval film think about how the re-creation of an often mythical past performs important cultural work for modern directors and viewers. Race class and gender in medieval cinema the new middle. The essays in this collection demonstrate that directors intentionally insert modern preoccupations into a setting that would normally be considered incompatible with these concepts. The Middle Ages provide an imaginary space far enough removed from the present day to explore modern preoccupations with human identity.