The Holy Grail on film : essays on the cinematic quest /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]
Description:	ix, 245 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Grail in motion pictures. Quests (Expeditions) in motion pictures. Quests (Expeditions) in motion pictures. Grail in motion pictures.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10150017

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Other authors / contributors:	Harty, Kevin J., editor.
ISBN:	9780786477852 0786477857 9781476620534
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This collection of new essays is the first to study film depictions of the quest for the Holy Grail--the Christian holy relic of legend supposedly used by Jesus at the Last Supper. Scholars and critics discuss American and European films that offer fresh perspectives on this enduring myth of the Arthurian world and Western culture"--

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Holy Grail, Silent Grail
The Silver Chalice: The Once and Future Grail
Lancelot tin lac: Robert Bresson's Arthurian Realism
Perceval of the Avant-Garde: Rohmer, Blank and von Trier
Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's Parsifal: Remystifying Kundry
"Lovely Filth": Money Python and the Matter of the Holy Grail
John Boorman's Excalibur and the Irrigating Light of the Grail
The Da Vinci Code and the Myth of History
Percival in Cooperstown: Arthurian Legend. Baseball Mythology and the Mediated Quest in Barry Levinson's The Natural
Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King
A Son, His Father, Some Nazis and the Grail: Lucas and Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
A Grail or a Mirage? Searching the Wasteland of The Road Warrior
The Grail as Symbolic Quest in Tarkovskys Stalker
The Waterboy and Swamp Chivalry: A Grail Knight for American Teens
Holy Grail, Schlocky Grail
About the Contributors
Index

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