{"product_id":"studies-in-medievalism-xxxiii-9781843847175","title":"Studies in Medievalism XXXIII","description":"\u003cb\u003eEssays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough \u003ci\u003eStudies in Medievalism\u003c\/i\u003e has hosted many essays on gender, this is the first volume devoted specifically to that theme. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first part features four short essays that directly address manifestations of sexism in postmedieval responses to the Middle Ages: gender substitutions in a Grail Quest episode of the 2023 television series \u003ci\u003eMrs. Davis\u003c\/i\u003e, repurposed misogyny in the last two episodes of \u003ci\u003eGame of Thrones\u003c\/i\u003e (2011-19), traditional gender stereotypes in Capital One's credit card commercials from 2000 to 2013, and \"shaggy\" medievalism in Robert Eggers' 2022 film \u003ci\u003eThe Northman\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe second part contains ten longer essays, which collectively continue to demonstrate the ubiquity of gender issues and the extraordinary flexibility of approaches to them. The authors discuss the misogynistic sexualization of Grendel's mother in Parke Godwin's 1995 fantasy novel \u003ci\u003eThe Tower of Beowulf\u003c\/i\u003e, in Graham Baker's 1999 film \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e, in three episodes from the television series \u003ci\u003eXena: Warrior Princess\u003c\/i\u003e, and in Robert Zemeckis's 2007 film \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e; gender substitution in David Lowery's 2021 film \u003ci\u003eThe Green Knight\u003c\/i\u003e and in Kinoku Nasu's and Takashi Takeuchi's anime series \u003ci\u003eFate\u003c\/i\u003e (2004-); female authorship of three early-nineteenth-century plays about court ladies' medieval empowerment; extraordinary violence in medievalist video games; nationalism in fake nineteenth-century medievalist documents and in contemporary online fora; racial discrimination in video gaming and in Jim Crow literature; and the condemnation of racism in Maria Dahvana Headley's 2018 novel \u003ci\u003eThe Mere Wife\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Karl Fugelso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280398692603,"sku":"9781843847175","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781843847175.jpg?v=1772487531","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/studies-in-medievalism-xxxiii-9781843847175","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}