Neomedieval Trauma: The Cinematic Hyperreality of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Clements, Pamela.

Title
Neomedieval Trauma: The Cinematic Hyperreality of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

Published
Carol L. Robinson, Pamela Clements, and Richard Utz, eds. Neomedievalism in the Media: Essays on Film, Television and Electronic Games (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2012), pp. 35-54.

Description
Essay on adaptations of CT, focusing on Powell and Pressburger's "A Canterbury Tale (1944), Piero Pasolini's "I racconti di Canterbury" (1972), and Brian Helgeland's "A Knight's Tale" (2001), which treat CT in a "neomedievalist fashion" and also provide "Chaucerian commentary" on the time periods of these films.

Alternative Title
Neomedievalism in the Media: Essays on Film, Television and Electronic Games.

Chaucer Subjects
Recordings and Films
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion