Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture /

Pop culture portrayals of medieval and early modern monarchs are rife with tension between authenticity and modern mores, producing anachronisms such as a feminist Queen Isabel (in RTVE's Isabel) and a lesbian Queen Christina (in The Girl King). This book examines these anachronisms as a dialog...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Queenship and Power
Subjects:
Europe-History-1492-.
Europe-History-476-1492.
Gender identity.
Civilization-History.
Motion pictures-History.
ISBN:9783319687711
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 Angoulême 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 Kaurimäski'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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