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QUEENSHIP AND POWER PREMODERN RULERS AND POSTMODERN VIEWERS Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture Edited by Janice North, Karl C. Alvestad, and Elena Woodacre Queenship and Power Series Editors Charles Beem University of North Carolina, Pembroke Pembroke, NC, USA Carole Levin University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE, USA This series focuses on works specializing in gender analysis, women’s studies, literary interpretation, and cultural, political, constitutional, and diplomatic history. It aims to broaden our understanding of the strategies that queens—both consorts and regnants, as well as female regents—pursued in order to wield political power within the structures of male-dominant societies. The works describe queenship in Europe as well as many other parts of the world, including East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Islamic civilization. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14523 Janice North · Karl C. Alvestad Elena Woodacre Editors Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture Editors Janice North Elena Woodacre Altoona, PA, USA Department of History University of Winchester Karl C. Alvestad Winchester, UK Department of History University of Winchester Winchester, UK Queenship and Power ISBN 978-3-319-68770-4 ISBN 978-3-319-68771-1 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68771-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017957840 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover credit: Vladimir Pomortzeff/Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland To our loved ones, who have offered us unflagging support and patience during the production of this collection. A cknowledgements The editors would like to thank Christine Pardue at Palgrave Macmillan for her assistance throughout the process, which has been invaluable. We would also like to thank Timothy McCallister and Kavita Mudan Finn for their helpful comments on the introduction and Daniel Delgado Díaz for his assistance with formatting the images in the book for production. vii c ontents 1 Introduction—Getting Modern: Depicting Premodern Power and Sexuality in Popular Media 1 Janice North, Elena Woodacre, and Karl C. Alvestad Part I Reappraising Female Rulers in the Light of Modern Feminism(s) 21 2 Early Modern Queens on Screen: Victors, Victims, Villains, Virgins, and Viragoes 27 Elena Woodacre 3 Silencing Queens: The Dominated Discourse of Historical Queens in Film 51 April Harper 4 Feminism, Fiction, and the Empress Matilda 69 Katherine Weikert 5 ‘She Is My Eleanor’: The Character of Isabella of Angoulême on Film—A Medieval Queen in Modern Media 91 Carey Fleiner ix x CoNTENTS 6 Women’s Weapons in The White Queen 111 Misty Urban 7 ‘Men Go to Battle, Women Wage War’: Gender Politics in The White Queen and Its Fandom 131 Kavita Mudan Finn Part II Questions of Adaptation: Bringing Premodern Queens to the Page and Screen 153 8 Religious Medievalisms in RTVE’s Isabel 159 Emily S. Beck 9 ‘The Queen of Time’: Isabel I in The Ministry of Time (2015) and The Queen of Spain (2016) 179 Emily C. Francomano 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 Television 195 Janice North 11 The Filmic Legacy of ‘Queen Christina’: Mika Kaurismäki’s Girl King (2015) and Bernard Tavernier’s Cinematic ‘Amazons’ in D’Artagnan’s Daughter (1994) and The Princess of Monpensier (2010) 215 Séverine Genieys-Kirk 12 Thomas Imbach’s Marian Biopic: Postmodern Period Drama or Old-Fashioned Psychogram? 239 Armel Dubois-Nayt CoNTENTS xi Part III Undermining Authority: Rulers with Conflicted Gender and Sexual Identities 257 13 Queering Isabella: The ‘She-Wolf of France’ in Film and Television 263 Michael R. Evans 14 Seeing Him for What He Was: Reimagining King Olaf II Haraldsson in Post-War Popular Culture 283 Karl C. Alvestad 15 Televising Boabdil, Last Muslim King of Granada 303 Elizabeth Drayson 16 A Man? A Woman? A Lesbian? A Whore?: Queen Elizabeth I and the Cinematic Subversion of Gender 319 Aidan Norrie Index 341
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