Hollywood Knights: Arthurian Cinema and the Politics of Nostalgia

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.

Author: S. Aronstein
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/13/2005
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.96w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9781403966490

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2006 pg. 1999

About the Author
Susan Aronstein is Professor of English at the University of Wyoming, USA.