Queer Movie Medievalisms (Queer Interventions)

How is history even possible, since it involves recuperation of a past that is already lost? In the urge to understand and even to feel or experience history, "medieval" films 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. Hence the impossibility of heterosexuality, or of any sexuality, predicated upon cinematic medievalism: identity as constructed through the past cannot escape the change of presentism, and thus queerness can serve as the defining metaphor for studying both sexuality and historical films. In Queer Movie Medievalisms, contributors grapple with the ways in which mediations between past and present, as registered on the silver screen, queerly undercut assumptions about sexuality throughout time. Book jacket.

• | Author: Tison Pugh
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jun 30, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 268 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 036760308X
• | ISBN-13: 9780367603083