Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture 1st Edition

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Product details:

• ISBN-10: 3319687719
• ISBN-13: 9783319687711
• Author:  Elena Woodacre, Janice North, Karl C. Alvestad
  

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 dialogue between premodern and postmodern ideas about gender and sexuality, raising questions of intertemporality, the interpretation of history, and the dangers of presentism. Covering a range of famous and lesser-known European monarchs on screen, from Elizabeth I to Muhammad XII of Granada, this book addresses how the lives of powerful women and men have been mythologized in order to appeal to today’s audiences. The contributors interrogate exactly what is at stake in these portrayals; namely, our understanding of premodern rulers, the gender and sexual ideologies they navigated, and those that we navigate today.

Table contents:

1. Introduction—Getting Modern: Depicting Premodern Power and Sexuality in Popular Media
Part 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
Part 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 Kaurismäki’s Girl King (2015) and Bertrand 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?
Part 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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