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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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About the author
Susan Aronstein is Professor of English at the University of Wyoming, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hollywood Knights
Book Subtitle: Arthurian Cinema and the Politics of Nostalgia
Authors: Susan Aronstein
Series Title: Arthurian and Courtly Cultures
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-12400-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6649-0Published: 13 October 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-12400-5Published: 30 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2945-6916
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6924
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 264
Topics: Medieval Literature, Cultural History, Film History, Fiction, Cultural Studies, Screen Studies