Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers

Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers

Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture

Woodacre, Elena; Alvestad, Karl C.; North, Janice

Springer International Publishing AG

06/2019

351

Mole

Inglês

9783319886565

15 a 20 dias

491

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1. Introduction: Getting Modern: Depicting Premodern Power and Sexuality in Popular Media.- I. Reappraising female rulers in the light of modern feminism(s).- 2. Early Modern Queens on Screen: Victors, Victims, Villains, Virgins, and Viragoes.- 3. Silencing Queens: The Dominated Discourse of Historical Queens in Film.- 4. Feminism, Fiction, and the Empress Matilda.- 5. "She is my Eleanor": The Character of Isabella of Angouleme on Film - A Medieval Queen in Modern Media.- 6. Women's Weapons in The White Queen.- 7. "Men go to battle, women wage war": Gender Politics in The White Queen and its Fandom.- II. Questions of adaptation: Bringing premodern queens to the page and screen.- 8. Religious Medievalisms in RTVE's Isabel.- 9. "The Queen of Time": Isabel I in The Ministry of Time (2015) and The Queen of Spain (2016).- 10. From Mad Love to Mad Lust: The Dangers of Female Desire in Twenty-First Century Representations of Juana I of Castile in Film and Television.- 11. The Filmic Legacy of Queen Christina: Mika Kaurimaeski's Girl King (2015) and Bernard Tavernier's Cinematic "Amazons" in D'Artagnan's Daughter (1994) and The Princess of Monpensier (2010).- 12. Thomas Imbach's Marian Biopic: Postmodern Period Drama or Old-Fashioned Psychogram?- III. Undermining authority: Rulers with conflicted gender and sexual identities.- 13. Queering Isabella: The "She-Wolf of France" in Film and Television.- 14. Seeing Him for What He Was: Reimagining King Olaf II Haraldsson in Post-War Popular Culture.- 15. Televising Boabdil, Last Muslim King of Granada.- 16. A man? A woman? A lesbian? A whore?: Queen Elizabeth I and the Cinematic Subversion of Gender.
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Medievalism;Women's history;presentism;medieval film and television;premodern rulers in popular culture;early modern queenship;Empress Matilda;Isabella of Angouleme;medievalism and feminist ideology;gender in The White Queen;Juana I;Queen Christina;Elizabeth I in film;Muhammad XI;Olaf II Haraldsson;gender and sexuality