Queer movie medievalisms /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
[2009]
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| Series: | Queer interventions.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : queer history, cinematic medievalism, and the impossibility of sexuality / Kathleen Coyne Kelly, 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 an 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 Kłosowska
- "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-Jürgen Syberberg's Parsifal / Michelle Bolduc
- Superficial medievalism and the queer futures of film / Cary Howie.