Hollywood knights

"Hollywood Knights examines Hollywood Arthuriana as a politics of nostalgia offered to American viewers during times of cultural crisis: the red scare of the '50s, the breakdown of traditional authority in the '60s and the '70s, the turn to the right in the '80s, and the redemption of masculine and national authority in the '90s. Its analysis of these films explores their proposal of an ideal past - an Americanized Camelot and a democratized chivalry - as the solution to the problems of a troubled present, a solution that will ensure prosperity in the homeland and a globally beneficial American authority abroad."--Jacket.