The Anachronism of Imagining Film in the Middle Ages: Wegener's 'Der Golem' and Chaucer's Knight's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Paxson, James J.
The Anachronism of Imagining Film in the Middle Ages: Wegener's 'Der Golem' and Chaucer's Knight's Tale
- Published
- Exemplaria 19 (2007): 290-309.
- Description
- Medieval allegory "prefigures cinematic consciousness." In Wegener's film "Der Golem," "Judaeo-Christian figural allegory, coupled with the narratology and the phenomenology of film," shifts "the deep past into the present in centrifugal, shocking, and transformative ways." In KnT, Chaucer describes murals that contain "an implicit and illusory movement," like film, moving the viewer "from one perspective to another in mobile fashion." KnT "bespeak[s] a proto-cinematic consciousness."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale