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A rich collection that looks at how the British monarchy has been seen on film and television. It is the first comprehensive look at royalty on screen.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Merck, Mandy (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2016]
Colección:Knowledge Unlatched
Temas:
Queens in motion pictures.
Kings and rulers in motion pictures.
Royal houses > Great Britain > History.
Reines au cinéma.
Rois et souverains au cinéma.
Maisons royales > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Film theory and criticism.
Film, TV and radio.
Films, cinema.
The arts.
ART > General.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Kings and rulers in motion pictures
Queens in motion pictures
Royal houses
Great Britain
film theory & criticism.
media and communications.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Mandy Merck
  • Part I: Victorian inventions
  • 1. 'A Very Wonderful Process': Queen Victoria, photography and film at the fin de siècle / Ian Christie
  • 2. Sixty Years a Queen (1913): a lost epic of the reign of Victoria / Jude Cowan Montague
  • 3. The heart of a heartless political world: screening Victoria / Steven Fielding
  • 4. Walbrook's royal waltzes / James Downs
  • Part II: The Elizabethan diva
  • 5. Her Majesty moves: Sarah Bernhardt, Queen Elizabeth, and the development of motion pictures / Victoria Duckett
  • 6. Elizabeth I: the cinematic afterlife of an early modern political diva / Elisabeth Bronfen and Barbara Straumann
  • 7. Queens and queenliness: Quentin Crisp as Orlando's Elizabeth I / Glyn Davis
  • Part III: Images of empire
  • 8. Renewing imperial ties: The Queen in Australia / Jane Landman
  • 9. The King's Speech: an allegory of imperial rapport / Deirdre Gilfedder
  • Part IV: Popular participation in royal representation
  • 10. The Queen has two bodies: Amateur film, civic culture and the rehearsal of monarchy / Karen Lury
  • 11. The regal catwalk: Royal weddings and the media promotion of British fashion / Jo Stephenson
  • 12. The Queen on the big screen(s)
  • outdoor screens and public congregations / Ruth Adams
  • Part V: Television's contested histories
  • 13. Television's royal family: continuity and change / Erin Bell and Ann Gray
  • 14. The Tudors and the post-national, post-historical Henry VIII / Basil Glynn
  • Part VI: Monarchy in contemporary Anglophone cinema
  • 15. From political power to the power of the image: Contemporary 'British' cinema and the nation's monarchs / Andrew Higson
  • 16. Melodrama, celebrity, The Queen / Mandy Merck
  • 17. When words fail: The King's Speech as melodrama / Nicola Rehling
  • Index.

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