The cinematic discourse on the Middle Ages

Spis treści:
Foreword ( Jarosław Wenta) / 7
Siegrid Schmidt
The Middle Ages in film and on television / 9
Waldemar Chorążyczewski
The historical film as a discourse about the past / 29
Bogdan Hojdis
The Middle Ages as a theme in Polish fictional films / 39
Teodora Artimon
‘Face-lifting’ national myths through historical film. Stephen the Great as a Romanian case study / 59
Adam Bednarczyk
Elegant courtiers and brave warriors: between passion, devotion and passing. Japanese Middle Ages on the silver screen / 73
Mariusz Guzek
The Medieval Ages on television. The unification of Polish lands of 1308–1331 in the film ideology of the Polish People’s Republic / 95
Iwona Kolasińska-Pasterczyk
The Benedictine abbey as the centre of medieval universe. The mystery of struggle against the world, body and Satan in The Name of the Rose (1986) by Jean-Jacques Annaud / 107
Sylwia Kołos
Kenneth Branagh vs Laurence Olivier. Two interpretations of the Middle Ages in film adaptations of Henry V by William Shakespeare / 123
Jarosław Nikodem
‘One thought, one faith, one hand’ – Gniazdo by Jan Rybkowski in the eyes of a medievalist / 135
Martyna Olszowska
Postmodern manly melange. The knight figure in contemporary cinema. A Knight’s Tale, Kingdom of Heaven and Arn – The Knight Templar / 147