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- The British Monarchy On Screen
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: Manchester University Press
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Moving images of the British monarchy, in fact and fiction, are almost as old as the moving image itself, dating back to an 1895 American drama, The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots. British monarchs even appeared in the new ‘animated photography’ from 1896, led by Queen Victoria. Half a century later, the 1953 coronation of Elizabeth II was a milestone in the adoption of television, watched by 20 million Britons and 100 million North Americans. At the century’s end, Princess Diana’s funeral was viewed by 2.5 billion worldwide. In the first book-length examination of film and television representations of this enduring institution, distinguished scholars of media and political history analyse the screen representations of royalty from Henry VIII to ‘William and Kate’.
Table of Contents
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- List of figures
- pp. vii-ix
- List of contributors
- pp. x-xiv
- Acknowledgements
- pp. xv-xvi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-20
- Part I: Victorian inventions
- 4. Walbrook’s royal waltzes
- pp. 86-108
- Part II: The Elizabethan diva
- Part III: Images of empire
- Part IV: Popular participation in royal representation
- Part V: Television’s contested histories
- Part VI: Monarchy in contemporary anglophone cinema
- 16. Melodrama, celebrity, The Queen
- pp. 363-383
Additional Information
ISBN
9781526113047
Related ISBN(s)
9780719099564
MARC Record
OCLC
945438080
Pages
400
Launched on MUSE
2021-11-03
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND