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How is history even possible, since it involves recapturing a past
already lost? It is through this urge to understand, feel and
experience, that films based on medieval history are made. They
attempt to re-create the past, but can only do so through a queer
re-visioning that inevitably replicates modernity. In these
mediations between past and present, history becomes misty, and so,
too, do constructions of gender and sexuality leading to the
impossibility of heterosexuality, or of any sexuality, predicated
upon cinematic medievalism. Queer Movie Medievalisms is the first
book of its kind to grapple with the ways in which mediations
between past and present, as registered on the silver screen,
queerly undercut assumptions about sexuality throughout time. It
will be of great interest to scholars of Gender and Sexuality,
Cultural and Media Studies, Film Studies and Medieval History.
This book challenges the belief that female virginity can be
reliably and unambiguously defined, tested and verified. Kelly
analyses a variety of medieval Western European texts - including
medical treatises and their Classical antecedents - and historical
and legal documents. The main focus is the representation of both
male and female virgins in saints' legends and romances. The author
also makes a comparative study of examples from contemporary
fiction, television and film in which testing virginity is a theme.
Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages
presents a compelling and provocative study of the parodox of
bodily and spiritual integrity as both presence and absence.
How is history even possible, since it involves recapturing a past
already lost? It is through this urge to understand, feel and
experience, that films based on medieval history are made. They
attempt to re-create the past, but can only do so through a queer
re-visioning that inevitably replicates modernity. In these
mediations between past and present, history becomes misty, and so,
too, do constructions of gender and sexuality leading to the
impossibility of heterosexuality, or of any sexuality, predicated
upon cinematic medievalism. Queer Movie Medievalisms is the first
book of its kind to grapple with the ways in which mediations
between past and present, as registered on the silver screen,
queerly undercut assumptions about sexuality throughout time. It
will be of great interest to scholars of Gender and Sexuality,
Cultural and Media Studies, Film Studies and Medieval History.
This book challenges the belief that female virginity can be reliably and unambiguously defined, tested and verified. Kelly analyses a variety of medieval Western European texts - including medical treatises and their Classical antecedents - and historical and legal documents. The main focus is the representation of both male and female virgins in saints' legends and romances. The author also makes a comparative study of examples from contemporary fiction, television and film in which testing virginity is a theme. Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages presents a compelling and provocative study of the parodox of bodily and spiritual integrity as both presence and absence. eBook available with sample pages: 0203463811
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