"Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media" contextualizes
historical films in an innovative way--not only relating them to
the history of cinema, but also to premodern and early modern
media. This philological approach to the (pre)history of cinema
engages both old media such as scrolls, illuminated manuscripts,
the Bayeux Tapestry, and new digital media such as DVDs, HD DVDs,
and computers. Burt examines the uncanny repetitions that now
fragment films into successively released alternate cuts and extras
(footnote tracks, audiocommentaries, and documentaries) that
(re)structure and reframe historical films, thereby presenting new
challenges to historicist criticism and film theory. With a double
focus on recursive narrative frames and the cinematic paratexts of
medieval and early modern film, this book calls our attention to
strange, sometimes opaque phenomena in film and literary theory
that have previously gone unrecognized.
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