Cine artúrico y neomedievalismode "Excalibur" (1981) a "King Arthur" (2003)
ISSN: 1137-8905
Year of publication: 2008
Issue Title: Medievalismo/s. De la disciplina y otros espacios imaginados (II)
Issue: 21
Pages: 85-123
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista de Poética Medieval
Abstract
Arthurian literature has provided einema one of the most frequent subject for their recreations of the Middle Ages. For this reason, films about king Arthur reveal most of the methods of reinvention to which, actualIy, has be en subjected that historical age. This process of recodification, stood out by the adaptation ofthe literary works to the cinematographicallanguage, supports the use of the Middle Ages as distance resort to exhibit the interest and the ideology of the contemporary society. So, cinema is a outstanding field for studying neomedievalism during the last hundred years. This article shows the reinterpretation of the Middle Ages carried out by the arthurian cinema in the second half of the XXth century, for which it analyze Excalibur (1981), First Knight (1995) and King Arthur (2003).