Queer movie medievalisms. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Kathleen Coyne Kelly, Tison Pugh.
• Other Names: Kelly, Kathleen Coyne; Pugh, Tison
• Contents: Introduction : queer history, cinematic medievalism, and the impossibility of sexuality / Kathleen Coyne Kelly, Tison Pugh -- The law of the daughter : queer family politics in Bertrand Tavernier's La passion Béatrice / Lisa Manter -- Queering the Lionheart : Richard I in The lion in winter on stage and screen / R. Barton Palmer -- "He's not an ardent suitor, is he, brother?" : Richard the Lionheart's ambiguous sexuality in Cecil B. DeMille's The Crusades (1935) / Lorraine Kochanske Stock -- "In the company of orcs" : Peter Jackson's queer Tolkien / Jane Chance -- The eastern Western: camp as a response to cultural failure in The conqueror / Anna Kłosowska -- "In my own idiom" : social critique, campy gender, and queer performance in Monty Python and the Holy Grail / Susan Aronstein -- Performance, camp, and queering history in Luc Besson's Jeanne d'Arc / Susan Hayward -- Sean Connery's star persona and the queer Middle Ages / Tison Pugh -- Will Rogers' pink spot : A Connecticut Yankee (1931) / Kathleen Coyne Kelly -- Danny Kaye and the "fairy tale" of queerness in The court jester / Martha Bayless -- Mourning and sexual difference in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's Parsifal / Michelle Bolduc -- Superficial medievalism and the queer futures of film / Cary Howie.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (266 pages)
• Subjects: 791.436358207; Homosexuality in motion pictures; Middle Ages in motion pictures; Homosexuality and motion pictures
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351907125; 1351907123
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