Green Knight & conservative artistry
So Green Knight is the one movie that has aroused the interest of young conservatives interested in the arts, & has encouraged especially academics teaching English to write about it, since it’s an adaptation of the 14th c. poem Sir Gawain & The Green Knight. There’s something about artistic vision & our awareness of the misery of young men in our times that inspires this writing. Here’s a list of essays & podcasts—I’m sure there are many more besides, feel free to add them in the comments:
I wrote for Law&Liberty on the strange insistence of the poem on chastity & its connection to honor.
My friend Justin Lee wrote in First Things in defense of the writer-director’s vision in adapting the poem. Justin argues the movie comes out against the mad claims about authenticity that have become the ordinary discourse of our liberalism.
Another friend, Alex Taylor, wrote in The American Conservative about the movie’s mix of the Christianity of the Sir Gawain poem & the doomed paganism of the Beowulf poem. He also pointed out how the movie depicts our own desperate gerontocracy.
I did a podcast with Justin Lee & Dave Woods on the movie!
Finally, my friends Hannah Long & Ethan Collins did a podcast with Tyler Hummel on the movie (Apple Podcasts):