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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Queer Movie Medievalisms
• Author: Tison Pugh
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 266
• EAN: 9780754675921
• ISBN: 0754675920
• ID: 04681717
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 635 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. July 2009

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