Arthurian Legend and the Death of Optimus Prime in Transformers: The Movie (1986)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vi
3. Contents vii
4. List of Illustrations ix
5. Preface xiii
6. “Hair Cut Short like a Mediæval Page”: Queer Medievalisms in Gwen Lally’s Historical Pageants and Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness (1928) 1
7. “I thought I would be a Chaucerian”: Robert Glück, the Medievalism of New Narrative, and Margery Kempe 26
8. “I Will Send to Them Women”: Josephine Butler’s Catharine of Siena: A Biography (1878), Female Food Abstinence, and Victorian Feminist Medievalism 53
9. “Noble Maiden Fair”: Music and the Construction of Gender in Disney/Pixar’s Brave and Disney’s Sleeping Beauty 79
10. Becoming a Man in Narnia: Adaptation, Medievalism, and Masculinity in Prince Caspian 103
11. “Where Men Lived After the Manner of Beasts”: Bandits in Medieval Worlds 123
12. The Musical Camelot and Colonial Medieval Tribalism in Richard E. Grant’s 2005 Film Wah-Wah 139
13. Narratives of Belonging: Arminius and Autochthony between the Minnesota Prairie and German Forests 149
14. King Arthur and Imagined Indians: The Entanglement of Medievalist and Indigenous Elements in Guy Gavriel Kay’s Fionavar Tapestry 174
15. Arthurian Legend and the Death of Optimus Prime in Transformers: The Movie (1986) 192
16. Laughing at a Carolingian Legacy: Medievalism and Charlemagne Legends in Twentieth-Century America 213
17. Contributors 240