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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154616003321

Titolo

Queer movie medievalisms / / edited by Kathleen Coyne Kelly, Tison Pugh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-90712-3

1-315-24546-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 pages)

Collana

Queer Interventions

Altri autori (Persone)

KellyKathleen Coyne

PughTison

Disciplina

791.4308664

Soggetti

Homosexuality in motion pictures

Middle Ages in motion pictures

Homosexuality and motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The law of the daughter : queer family politics in Bertrand Tavernier's La passion Béatrice / Lisa Manter -- 2. Queering the Lionheart : Richard I in The lion in winter on stage and screen / R. Barton Palmer -- 3. "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 -- 4. "In the company of orcs" : Peter Jackson's queer Tolkien / Jane Chance -- 5. The eastern Western : camp as a response to cultural failure in The conqueror / Anna Kosowska -- 6. "In my own idiom" : social critique, campy gender, and queer performance in Monty Python and the Holy Grail / Susan Aronstein -- 7. Performance, camp, and queering history in Luc Besson's Jeanne d'Arc / Susan Hayward -- 8. Sean Connery's star persona and the queer Middle Ages / Tison Pugh -- 9. Will Rogers' pink spot : A Connecticut Yankee (1931) / Kathleen Coyne Kelly -- 10. Danny Kaye and the "fairy tale" of queerness in The court jester / Martha Bayless -- 11. Mourning and sexual difference in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's Parsifal / Michelle Bolduc -- 12. Superficial medievalism and the queer futures of film / Cary Howie.