Siegfried. Mel Gibson
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The Middle Ages and the movies….
Alexander Nevsky, Andrei Rublev, Braveheart, Edward I, Eisenstein, El Cid, Fritz Lang, historical accuracy, Italy, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Robert Bartlett, Russia, satire, Scotland, Siegfried. Mel Gibson, Sir William wallace, Spain, Stalinist tyranny, Tarkovsky, The Middle Ages and the Movies, The Name of the Rose, The Seventh Seal, Umberto Eco“….In The Middle Ages and the Movies eminent historian Robert Bartlett takes a fresh, cogent look at how our view of medieval history has been shaped by eight significant films of the twentieth century. The book ranges from the concoction of sex and nationalism in Mel Gibson’s Braveheart, to Fritz Lang’s silent masterpiece Siegfried, the art-house classic The Seventh Seal to…
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