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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 37
IS  - 1
T2  - Exemplaria
SP  - 77-98
ID  - bbbo942
T1  - "Hamlet in Valhalla: History, White Supremacy, and Trauma in The Northman"
AU  - Swarbrick, Steven
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2026
KW  - psychoanalytic criticism
LA  - English
AB  - Compares The Northman (dir. Robert Eggers, 2022) to Hamlet, both of which draw on the same "medieval source text ... [Saxo Grammaticus's] legend of Amleth." Suggests that Eggers' film, unlike Shakespeare's play, does not adequately dramatize the delayed an acausal nature of trauma; argues that Eggers, while trying to offer a critique of an imagined white medieval past only serves to reinforce white supremacist interpretatins. English summary, 77.
ER  -