Hollywood Knights
Hollywood Knights examines the role played by Hollywood films in America's appropriation of the medieval past in times of cultural crisis. It analyzes the Arthurian films produced during the red scare of the 1950s, the breakdown of traditional authority in the 1960s and '70s, the turn to the right in the 1980s, and the redemption of national and masculine authority in the 1990s, arguing that these films propose an idealized past—an American Camelot and a democratic chivalry—to solve the...
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Hollywood Knights clarifies the role played by Arthurian film in America's appropriation of an idealized medieval past to shore up national and cultural authority in times of crisis.
1Back to the future : the birth of modern medievalism in England and America112The birth of Camelot : the literary origins of the Hollywood Arthuriana293The knights of the Round Table : Camelot in Hollywood554"Once there was a spot" : Camelot and the crisis of the 1960s795"Let's not go to Camelot" : deconstructing myth996Old myths are new again : Ronald Reagan, Indiana Jones, Knightriders, and the pursuit of the past1177The return of the king : Arthur and the quest for true manhood1458Democratizing Camelot : Yankees in King Arthur's court1679Revisiting the Round Table : Arthur's American dream191
