Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers
| Autor: | Janice North, Karl C. Alvestad, Elena Woodacre |
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| EAN: | 9783319687711 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | eBook |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 01.02.2018 |
| Untertitel: | Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture |
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| Schlagworte: | Empress Matilda Isabella of Angoulême Juana I Medievalism Queen Women's history early modern queenship gender in The White Queen medieval film and television medievalism and feminist ideology premodern rulers in popular culture presentism |
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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.
Janice North is an independent scholar and specialist in medieval and Golden Age Iberian literature.
Karl C. Alvestad is Lecturer in History at the University of Winchester, UK.
Elena Woodacre is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern European History at the University of Winchester, UK.
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