Ebook: Remaking the Middle Ages: The Methods of Cinema and History in Portraying the Medieval World

Using both semiotics and historiography, this demonstrates how contemporary filmmakers have attempted to recreate the past in a way that, while largely imagined, is also logical, meaningful, and as truthful as possible. It analyzes a wide range of films depicting the Middle Ages, arguing that most of these films either reflect the past through a series of visual signs or by comparing the past to a modern equivalent.