Queer Movie Medievalisms (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780367603083)

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.

Author: Tison Pugh
ISBN-10: 036760308X
ISBN-13: 9780367603083
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2020
Pages: 266
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d