Description: Examines how early films used medieval stories and tropes to propagate contemporary political, national, and social messages at a time of technology-driven seismic shifts in the creation and consumption of narratives.
Review Quotes: "Silent Medievalisms is a feat of interdisciplinarity, covering individual films and filmmakers, literary adaptations, documentaries, staged authenticity, cinema as a collaborative art, the relationship between narrative and spectacle in early film, historical context, and marketing and distribution. A sophisticated, informative work." --Susan Aronstein, author of Hollywood Knights: Arthurian Cinema and the Politics of Nostalgia