Abstract:This article considers how The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses (2016) -the adaptation of the Henry VI tetralogy and Richard III for the BBC -establishes a norm of white masculinity at the heart of its representation of political power, and uses deviations from this norm to mark out a series of others over the course of its three parts. Paying particular attention to class, nation, gender and race as the multiple lines of marginalisation through which otherness is manufactured, the article considers how the… Show more
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