The United States Studies Centre (USSC) invites you to celebrate the publication of The Outlaw Observed: Robin Hood and the Culture of Surveillance by Dr Sabina Rahman.
Robin Hood has haunted the English cultural imagination for over six centuries, evolving from a yeoman outlaw to a romanticised nobleman and, ultimately, a fixture of film and television. The Outlaw Observed traces this legacy across a century of screen adaptations, from the earliest silent pictures of 1908 to contemporary series and argues that these adaptations do far more than reimagine the medieval past; they generate a transtemporal medievalism, in which past and present coexist and the outlaw becomes a prism through which modern surveillance cultures are refracted and interrogated.
The book launch will be chaired by Macquarie University Professor Louise D’Arcens, and features a discussion between the author and a panel of USSC experts, including Academic Director Dr Rodney Taveira and Senior Lecturer Dr Aaron Nyerges, considering this new framework for understanding how a medieval figure can serve as a distant mirror of the post-medieval present.
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