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Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers - Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers - Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Queenship and Power
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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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