Tison Pugh

Queer Movie Medievalisms (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Kelly, Kathleen Coyne

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351907125
• Artikelnr.: 49365858

Autorenporträt

Kathleen Coyne Kelly is Professor of English at Northeastern University, USA Tison Pugh is Associate Professor of English at the University of Central Florida, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: queer history
cinematic medievalism
and the impossibility of sexuality
Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh; The law of the daughter: queer family politics in Bertrand Tavernier's La Passion Béatrice
Lisa Manter; Queering the Lionheart: Richard I in The Lion in Winter on stage and screen
R. Barton Palmer; 'He's not a ardent suitor
is he
brother?': Richard the Lionheart's ambiguous sexuality in Cecil B. DeMille's The Crusades (1935)
Lorraine Kochanske Stock; 'In the company of Orcs': Peter Jackson's queer Tolkien
Jane Chance; The Eastern Western: camp as a response to cultural failure in The Conqueror
Anna Klosowska; 'In my own idiom': social critique
campy gender
and queer performance in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Susan Aronstein; Performance
camp
and queering history in Luc Besson's Jeanne d'Arc
Susan Hayward; Sean Connery's star persona and the queer Middle Ages
Tison Pugh; Will Rogers' pink spot: A Connecticut Yankee (1931)
Kathleen Coyne Kelly; Danny Kaye and the 'fairy tale' of queerness in The Court Jester
Martha Bayless; Mourning and sexual difference in Hans-Jÿrgen Syberbergs's Parsifal
Michelle Bolduc; Superficial medievalism and the queer futures of film
Cary Howie; Afterword
Glenn Burger and Steven F. Kruger; Index.