jpCenturion asks us to root for the occupiers because they sound like us. Boudica: Queen of War mythologizes rebellion until it turns history into fantasy.
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The Palimpsest of Empire: Aestheticized Violence and Ideological Distortion in Centurion and Boudica: Queen of War
The cinematic representation of Roman Britain serves as a persistent site for the negotiation of contemporary political anxieties, the aestheticization of historical trauma, and the perpetuation of…