Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender and Sex in Medieval Film and Television
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Royal Studies Journal
Organizer Name
Janice North
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of Arkansas-Fayetteville
Presider Name
Janice North
Paper Title 1
Melusine, Magic, and Maternal Blood in The White Queen
Presenter 1 Name
Misty Urban
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Muscatine Community College
Paper Title 2
"Men go to battle, women wage war": Gender Politics in The White Queen (2013)
Presenter 2 Name
Kavita Mudan Finn
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Independent Scholar
Paper Title 3
A New Isabel for the Twenty-First Century
Presenter 3 Name
Emily S. Beck
Presenter 3 Affiliation
College of Charleston
Paper Title 4
Queering Isabella: The "She-Wolf of France" in Film and Television
Presenter 4 Name
Michael R. Evans
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Delta College
Start Date
13-5-2016 3:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1335
Description
This panel is designed to encourage scholarship on the postmodern reception and representation of medieval and early modern rulers and other members of the royal household—both historical and fictional adaptations—in film and in television. Medieval-themed fantasy and historical dramas have been on the rise in recent years, which in turn has led to a proliferation of scholarly works focused on medieval film, such as The Medieval Motion Picture: The Politics of Adaptation (Johnston et al., 2014), Remaking the Middle Ages: The Methods of Cinema and History in Portraying the Medieval World (Elliot, 2011), and Queer Movie Medievalisms (Kelly and Puch, 2009), just to name a few of the recent edited collections. With the sustained popularity of these genres, there is a continuous need for feminist and queer readings of these texts. This panel will explore the interaction that occurs between premodern and postmodern sensibilities in the adaptation and viewing processes and interrogate the ways in which medieval film shapes and questions our understanding of gender and sexuality in the premodern royal court. Proposed papers may address how these portrayals reveal vestiges of premodern ideologies in contemporary society, or conversely, how the texts’ creators and audience project postmodern values onto these texts. We also welcome papers that address questions of temporality, adaptations and source materials, or representations of a particular ruler or member of the royal household in multiple texts.
Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender and Sex in Medieval Film and Television
Schneider 1335
This panel is designed to encourage scholarship on the postmodern reception and representation of medieval and early modern rulers and other members of the royal household—both historical and fictional adaptations—in film and in television. Medieval-themed fantasy and historical dramas have been on the rise in recent years, which in turn has led to a proliferation of scholarly works focused on medieval film, such as The Medieval Motion Picture: The Politics of Adaptation (Johnston et al., 2014), Remaking the Middle Ages: The Methods of Cinema and History in Portraying the Medieval World (Elliot, 2011), and Queer Movie Medievalisms (Kelly and Puch, 2009), just to name a few of the recent edited collections. With the sustained popularity of these genres, there is a continuous need for feminist and queer readings of these texts. This panel will explore the interaction that occurs between premodern and postmodern sensibilities in the adaptation and viewing processes and interrogate the ways in which medieval film shapes and questions our understanding of gender and sexuality in the premodern royal court. Proposed papers may address how these portrayals reveal vestiges of premodern ideologies in contemporary society, or conversely, how the texts’ creators and audience project postmodern values onto these texts. We also welcome papers that address questions of temporality, adaptations and source materials, or representations of a particular ruler or member of the royal household in multiple texts.