[Namron] Medieval Film Series

[JOHN]

Once again, OU will host a Medieval Film and Lecture Series beginning March
6 and continuing through April.  It looks like some GREAT Lecture topics
this year.

 

The Brochures are still rolling off the press but here is the Press Release.
Hopefully I'll have Medieval Fair Posters and Film/Lecture Series Brochures
to take to Wiesenfeuer Pop this Monday-that makes for a GREAT reason to take
a break from readying for War and make the short journey north!

 

Wolfgang

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

"OU Film Festival Goes Medieval"

 

Can there be such a thing as a "medieval film"? It sounds like an oxymoron,
but hardly a year goes by without some version of Robin Hood, King Arthur,
the Crusades, Joan of Arc, or all-purpose swords-and-sorcery fantasy hitting
the local cineplexes. Experts can complain about historical inaccuracies,
but America's appetite for the Middle Ages seems endless-and even scholars
have become intrigued with the ways in which the blank slate of the Middle
Ages can become a screen on which film-makers project modern concerns.

 

If you like the films but wonder what the "real story" was, the Medieval
Fair of Norman and the Other Film Club are sponsoring a Film Festival just
for you. Professor Joyce Coleman of the English Dept. and Professor Joseph
Sullivan of the Dept. of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics have
organized the Festival, selecting films that represent a wide range of
modern views on things medieval (and Renaissance).

 

The Festival begins March 6 with Pier Paolo Pasolini's raucous
interpretation of the fourteenth-century Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio,
presented by Prof. Jason Houston of Modern Languages. Prof. David Anderson
of the English Dept. will helm a showing of Helen Mirren's outstanding
Elizabeth I, with part I showing on March 20 and part II on March 27. Prof.
Joyce Coleman of English will wind up the series April 10, with Michael
Powell's extraordinary World War II film, A Canterbury Tale. 

 

Each presenter will introduce the film with brief comments on the medieval
background and the film's own history. After the film the presenter will
hold a Q&A session with the audience.

 

All movies will be shown in Meacham Auditorium from 5-7:30 p.m. 

 

The Medieval Film Series will be shown in conjunction with the Medieval
Lecture Series. This series begins April 6 and will include lectures on the
Albigensian Crusade, the Black Death, Dante's Hell, and Robin Hood and
Chivalry. The lecturers are Jane Wickersham, OU History Dept.; Roberta
Magnusson, OU History Dept.; Jason Houston, OU Dept. of Modern Languages;
and Kenneth Hodges, OU English Dept.

 

 

 

 

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