Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 228 p.
Introduction: Filming the “other” Middle Ages
Once, Present, and Future Kings: Kingdom of Heaven and the Multitemporality of Medieval Film
Chahine’s Destiny: Prophetic Nostalgia and the other Middle Ages
Reversing the Crusades: Hegemony, Orientalism, and Film Language in Youssef Chahine’s Saladin
Samurai on Shifting Ground: Negotiating the Medieval and the Modern in Seven Samurai and Yojimbo
Vikings through the Eyes of an Arab Ethnographer: Constructions of the other in the 13th Warrior
Mission Historical, Or “[T]here Were a Hell of a Lot of Knights”: Ethnicity and Alterity in Jerry Bruckheimer’s King Arthur
Inner-City Chivalry in Gil Junger’s Black Knight: A South Central Yankee in King Leo’s Court
Queering the Medieval Dead: History, Horror, and Masculinity in Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead Trilogy
In Praise of Troubadourism: Creating Community in Occupied France, 1942–43
Sexing Warrior Women in China’s Martial Arts World: King Hu’s a Touch of Zen
The Hawk, the Wolf, and the Mouse: Tracing the Gendered other in Richard Donner’s Ladyhawke
Chaucer’s Man Show: Anachronistic Authority in Brian Helgeland’s a Knight’s Tale
The “other” Women of Sherwood: The Construction of Difference and Gender in Cinematic Treatments of the Robin Hood Legend