Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers
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Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers

Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture

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Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers

Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture

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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.

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Yes, you can access Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers by Janice North, Karl C. Alvestad, Elena Woodacre, Janice North,Karl C. Alvestad,Elena Woodacre in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & European History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2018
ISBN
9783319687711
Topic
History
Subtopic
European History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. 1. Introduction—Getting Modern: Depicting Premodern Power and Sexuality in Popular Media
  4. Part I. Reappraising Female Rulers in the Light of Modern Feminism(s)
  5. Part II. Questions of Adaptation: Bringing Premodern Queens to the Page and Screen
  6. Part III. Undermining Authority: Rulers with Conflicted Gender and Sexual Identities
  7. Erratum to: 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)
  8. Back Matter