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Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture (Queenship and Power) by Janice North, Karl C. Alvestad, Elena Woodacre, (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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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Author

Janice North, Karl C. Alvestad, Elena Woodacre, (eds.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan,

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9783319687711

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Science, Political Science