QUEER MOVIE MEDIEVALISMS
Queer Interventions
Series editors:
Noreen Giffney and Michael ORourke
University College Dublin, Ireland
Queer Interventions is an exciting, fresh and unique new series designed to publish innovative, experimental and theoretically engaged work in the burgeoning field of queer studies.
The aim of the series is to interrogate, develop and challenge queer theory, publishing queer work which intersects with other theoretical schools and is accessible whilst valuing difficulty; empirical work which is metatheoretical in focus; ethical and political projects and most importantly work which is self-reflexive about methodological and geographical location.
The series is interdisciplinary in focus and publishes monographs and collections of essays by new and established scholars. The editors intend the series to promote and maintain high scholarly standards of research and to be attentive to queer theorys shortcomings, silences, hegemonies and exclusions. They aim to encourage independence, creativity and experimentation: to make a queer theory that matters and to recreate it as something important; a space where new and exciting things can happen.
Titles in this series:
Jewish/Christian/Queer
Frederick Roden
ISBN: 978-0-7546-7375-0
Queering the Non/Human
Noreen Giffney and Myra J. Hird
IS BN: 978-0-7546-7128-2
Cinesexuality
Patricia MacCormack
ISBN: 978-0-7546-7175-6
Queer Attachments
Sally R. Munt
ISBN: 978-0-7546-4923-6
Queer Movie Medievalisms
Edited by
KATHLEEN COYNE KELLY
Northeastern University, USA
TISON PUGH
University of Central Florida, USA
First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Queer movie medievalisms. -- (Queer interventions)
1. Middle Ages in motion pictures. 2. Gender identity in
motion pictures. 3. Historical films--History and
criticism.
I. Series II. Kelly, Kathleen Coyne. II. Pugh, Tison.
791.436358207-dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Queer movie medievalisms / [edited] by Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-7592-1 (alk. paper)
1. Homosexuality in motion pictures. 2. Middle Ages in motion pictures. 3. Homosexuality and motion pictures. I. Kelly, Kathleen Coyne. II. Pugh, Tison.
PN1995.9.H55Q45 2009
791.43652664--dc22
2009003421
ISBN 9780754675921 (hbk)
Contents
Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh
Lisa Manter
R. Barton Palmer
Lorraine Kochanske Stock
Jane Chance
Anna Kosowska
Susan Aronstein
Susan Hayward
Tison Pugh
Kathleen Coyne Kelly
Martha Bayless
Michelle Bolduc
Cary Howie
Glenn Burger and Steven F. Kruger
Susan Aronstein is Professor of English at the University of Wyoming. She has published articles on medieval Welsh and French Arthurian romances, medievalism and popular culture, and Arthurian film. She is also the author of Hollywood Knights: Arthurian Cinema and the Politics of Nostalgia and is co-authoring a book on Steven Spielberg entitled Mourning in America: Loss and Redemption in the Cinema of Steven Spielberg.
Martha Bayless is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oregon. She focuses on the intersection between literature and culture in the Middle Ages, and her works include Parody in the Middle Ages: The Latin Tradition, as well as scholarship and journalism on medieval entertainment and on modern film.
Michelle Bolduc is Associate Professor in French, Italian, and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where she frequently teaches medieval cinema. Her publications include The Medieval Poetics of Contraries and numerous articles on thirteenth-century French and Occitan literature and manuscript contexts. Her current research probes marginal and interlinear glosses and the uses of translation in the reception of vernacular authority in late medieval manuscripts.
Glenn Burger is Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. He has edited Hetoums A Lytell Cronycle and (with Steven Kruger) Queering the Middle Ages. He is author of Chaucers Queer Nation and numerous articles on queer, gender, and postcolonial issues in Chaucerian texts. He is currently completing a book titled Conduct Becoming: Representing the Good Wife in the Late Middle Ages.
Jane Chance is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Chair in English at Rice University. She edits three book series and has published twenty-two books and over 100 articles, interviews, and reviews. Her most recent book on J. R. R. Tolkien is a co-edited collection, Tolkiens Modern Middle Ages; her latest monograph, The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women, received the 2008 SCMLA Prize. Her other essays on the Tolkien films include Is There a Text in this Hobbit? Peter Jacksons Fellowship of the Ring, in Literature/Film Quarterly, and Tolkiens Women (and Men): The Film and the Book, in Tolkien on Film.
Susan Hayward is the Established Chair of Cinema Studies at Exeter University where she is the Director of the Centre for Research into Film Studies. Professor Hayward is the author of several books on French cinema, including French National Cinema; Simone Signoret: The Star as Cultural Sign; Luc Besson; French Film: Texts and Contexts (with Ginette Vincendeau); Les Diaboliques; and Nikita. She is also the author of Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts.
Cary Howie is Assistant Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University, where he teaches medieval French and Italian literature, critical theory, and gender studies. He is the author of Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure in Medieval Literature and, with William Burgwinkle, Sanctity and Pornography in Medieval Culture: On the Verge.
Kathleen Coyne Kelly has published in Allegorica,
