Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture

1. Introduction: Getting Modern: Depicting Premodern Power and Sexuality in Popular Media
I. Reappraising female rulers in the light of modern feminism(s)
2. Early Modern Queens on Screen: Victors, Victims, Villains, Virgins, and Viragoes
3. Silencing Queens: The Dominated Discourse of Historical Queens in Film
4. Feminism, Fiction, and the Empress Matilda
5. "She is my Eleanor": The Character of Isabella of Angoulême on Film - A Medieval Queen in Modern Media
6. Women's Weapons in The White Queen
7. "Men go to battle, women wage war": Gender Politics in The White Queen and its Fandom
II. Questions of adaptation: Bringing premodern queens to the page and screen
8. Religious Medievalisms in RTVE's Isabel
9. "The Queen of Time": Isabel I in The Ministry of Time (2015) and The Queen of Spain (2016)
10. From Mad Love to Mad Lust: The Dangers of Female Desire in Twenty-First Century Representations of Juana I of Castile in Film and Television
11. The Filmic Legacy of Queen Christina: Mika Kaurimäski's Girl King (2015) and Bernard Tavernier's Cinematic "Amazons" in D'Artagnan's Daughter (1994) and The Princess of Monpensier (2010)
12. Thomas Imbach's Marian Biopic: Postmodern Period Drama or Old-Fashioned Psychogram?
III. Undermining authority: Rulers with conflicted gender and sexual identities
13. Queering Isabella: The "She-Wolf of France" in Film and Television
14. Seeing Him for What He Was: Reimagining King Olaf II Haraldsson in Post-War Popular Culture
15. Televising Boabdil, Last Muslim King of Granada
16. A man? A woman? A lesbian? A whore?: Queen Elizabeth I and the Cinematic Subversion of Gender