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Hollywood Knights: Arthurian Cinema and the Politics of Nostalgia

Hollywood Knights: Arthurian Cinema and the Politics of Nostalgia

Aronstein, S.

Hardcover

Series: Arthurian and Courtly Cultures

Literary CriticismFilm StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1403966494
ISBN13: 9781403966490
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 13 2005
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.96 Depth: 8.56
Language: English
Hollywood Knights examines Hollywood Arthuriana as political nostalgia offered to American viewers during times of cultural crisis: the red scare of the 1950s, the breakdown of traditional authority in the 1960s and 1970s, the turn to the right in the 1980s and the redemption of masculine and national authority in the 1990s. Its analysis of these films explores their proposal of an ideal past - an Americanized Camelot and a democratized chivalry - as the solution to the problems of a troubled present, a solution that will ensure prosperity in the homeland and a globally beneficial American authority abroad.

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