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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>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!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Wolfgang<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
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<p class=Body><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>“OU Film Festival
Goes Medieval”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=Body><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=Body><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>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).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=Body><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The Festival begins
March 6 with Pier Paolo Pasolini’s raucous interpretation of the
fourteenth-century <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Decameron</span></i> 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 <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Elizabeth I</span></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, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>A Canterbury Tale</span></i>.
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<p class=Body><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=Body><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>All movies will be shown
in Meacham Auditorium from 5-7:30 p.m. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=Body><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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