Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers (eBook)

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. 

1. Introduction: Getting Modern: Depicting Premodern Power and Sexuality in Popular MediaI. Reappraising female rulers in the light of modern feminism(s)2. Early Modern Queens on Screen: Victors, Victims, Villains, Virgins, and Viragoes3. Silencing Queens: The Dominated Discourse of Historical Queens in Film4. Feminism, Fiction, and the Empress Matilda5. "She is my Eleanor": The Character of Isabella of Angoulême on Film — A Medieval Queen in Modern Media6. Women's Weapons in The White Queen7. "Men go to battle, women wage war": Gender Politics in The White Queen and its FandomII. Questions of adaptation: Bringing premodern queens to the page and screen8. Religious Medievalisms in RTVE's Isabel9. "The Queen of Time": Isabel I in The Ministry of Time (2015) and The Queen of Spain (2016)10. From Mad Love to Mad Lust: The Dangers of Female Desire in Twenty-First Century Representations of Juana I of Castile in Film and Television11. The Filmic Legacy of Queen Christina: Mika Kaurimäski’s Girl King (2015) and Bernard Tavernier’s Cinematic "Amazons" in D’Artagnan’s Daughter (1994) and The Princess of Monpensier (2010)12. Thomas Imbach’s Marian Biopic: Postmodern Period Drama or Old-Fashioned Psychogram?III. Undermining authority: Rulers with conflicted gender and sexual identities13. Queering Isabella: The "She-Wolf of France" in Film and Television14. Seeing Him for What He Was: Reimagining King Olaf II Haraldsson in Post-War Popular Culture15. Televising Boabdil, Last Muslim King of Granada16. A man? A woman? A lesbian? A whore?: Queen Elizabeth I and the Cinematic Subversion of Gender