Queer movie medievalisms
By: [edited] by Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh.
Contributors: Kelly, Kathleen Coyne.; Pugh, Tison.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Company; Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780754675921
Subjects: Homosexuality in motion pictures; Middle Ages in motion pictures; Homosexuality and motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: queer history, cinematic medievalism, and the impossibility of sexuality / Kathleen Coyne Kelly, Tison Pugh; title: The law of the daughter: queer family politics in Bertrand Tavernier's La passion Béatrice / Lisa Manter; title: Queering the Lionheart: Richard I in The lion in winter on stage and screen / R. Barton Palmer; title: "He's not an ardent suitor, is he, brother?": Richard the Lionheart's ambiguous sexuality in Cecil B. DeMille's 1935 The Crusades / Lorraine Kochanske Stock; title: "In the company of Orcs": Peter Jackson's queer Tolkien / Jane Chance; title: The eastern Western: camp as a response to cultural failure in The conqueror / Anna Klosowska; title: "In my own idiom": social critique, campy gender, and queer performance in Monty Python and the Holy Grail / Susan Aronstein; title: Performance, camp, and queering history in Luc Besson's Jeanne d'Arc / Susan Hayward; title: Sean Connery's star persona and the queer Middle Ages / Tison Pugh; title: Will Rogers' pink spot: A Connecticut yankee / Kathleen Coyne Kelly; title: Danny Kaye and the "fairy tale" of queerness in The court jester / Martha Bayless; title: Mourning and sexual difference in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's Parsifal / Michelle Bolduc; title: Superficial medievalism and the queer futures of film / Cary Howie.