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

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: North, Janice (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Alvestad, Karl C. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Woodacre, Elena (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Queenship and Power
• Θέματα: Europe-History-1492-.; Europe-History-476-1492.; Gender identity.; Civilization-History.; Motion pictures-History.; History of Early Modern Europe.; History of Medieval Europe.; Gender and Sexuality.; Cultural History.; Film History.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.