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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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1. Back to the Future:The Birth of Modern Medievalism in England and America
- 2. The Birth of Camelot: The Literary Origins of the Hollywood Arthuriana
- 3. The Knights of the Round Table: Camelot in Hollywood
- 4. “Once There Was a Spot”: Camelot and the Crisis of the 1960s
- 5. “Let’s Not Go to Camelot”: Deconstructing Myth
- 6. Old Myths Are New Again: Ronald Reagan, Indiana Jones, Knightriders, and the Pursuit of the Past
- 7. The Return of the King:Arthur and the Quest for True Manhood
- 8. Democratizing Camelot:Yankees in King Arthur’s Court
- 9. Revisiting the Round Table: Arthur’s American Dream
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index