Premodern rulers and postmodern viewers : gender, sex, and power in popular culture /: gender, sex, and power in popular culture. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Janice North, Karl C. Alvestad, Elena Woodacre.
• Editors: North, Janice; Alvestad, Karl C; Woodacre, Elena
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Getting Modern: Depicting Premodern Power and Sexuality in Popular MediaI. Reappraising female rulers in the light of modern feminism(s)2. Early Modern Queens on Screen: Victors, Victims, Villains, Virgins, and Viragoes3. Silencing Queens: The Dominated Discourse of Historical Queens in Film4. Feminism, Fiction, and the Empress Matilda5. "She is my Eleanor": The Character of Isabella ofAngoulême on Film — A Medieval Queen in Modern Media6. Women's Weapons inThe White Queen7. "Men go to battle, women wage war": Gender Politics inThe White Queenand its FandomII. Questions of adaptation: Bringing premodern queens to the page and screen8. Religious Medievalisms in RTVE'sIsabel9. "The Queen of Time": Isabel I inThe Ministry of Time(2015) andThe 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 Television11. The Filmic Legacy of Queen Christina:Mika Kaurimäski'sGirl King(2015) and Bernard Tavernier's Cinematic "Amazons" inD'Artagnan's Daughter(1994) andThe 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 identities13.Queering Isabella: The "She-Wolf of France" in Film and Television14.Seeing Him for What He Was: Reimagining King Olaf II Haraldsson in Post-War Popular Culture15.Televising Boabdil, Last Muslim King of Granada16.A man? A woman? A lesbian? A whore?: Queen Elizabeth I and the Cinematic Subversion of Gender.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
• Subjects: 909.07; Middle Ages in popular culture; Monarchy in popular culture; Women in popular culture; Lesbians in popular culture; Gays in popular culture; Monarchy on television; Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485 -- Historiography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319687711
• Related ISBNs: 9783319687704
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