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- Title Pages
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
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1 ‘A very wonderful process’: Queen Victoria, photography and film at the fin de siècle -
2 Sixty Years a Queen (1913): a lost epic of the reign of Victoria -
3 The heart of a heartless political world: screening Victoria -
4 Walbrook’s royal waltzes -
5 Her Majesty moves: Sarah Bernhardt, Queen Elizabeth and the development of motion pictures -
6 Elizabeth I: the cinematic afterlife of an early modern political diva -
7 Queens and queenliness: Quentin Crisp as Orlando’s Elizabeth I -
8 Renewing imperial ties: The Queen in Australia -
9 The King’s Speech: an allegory of imperial rapport -
10 The Queen has two bodies: amateur film, civic culture and the rehearsal of monarchy -
11 The regal catwalk: royal weddings and the media promotion of British fashion -
12 The Queen on the big screen(s): outdoor screens and public congregations -
13 Television’s royal family: continuity and change -
14 The Tudors and the post-national, post-historical Henry VIII -
15 From political power to the power of the image: contemporary ‘British’ cinema and the nation’s monarchs -
16 Melodrama, celebrity, The Queen -
17 When words fail: The King’s Speech as melodrama - Index
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- Source:
- The British monarchy on screen
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
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- Title Pages
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
-
1 ‘A very wonderful process’: Queen Victoria, photography and film at the fin de siècle -
2 Sixty Years a Queen (1913): a lost epic of the reign of Victoria -
3 The heart of a heartless political world: screening Victoria -
4 Walbrook’s royal waltzes -
5 Her Majesty moves: Sarah Bernhardt, Queen Elizabeth and the development of motion pictures -
6 Elizabeth I: the cinematic afterlife of an early modern political diva -
7 Queens and queenliness: Quentin Crisp as Orlando’s Elizabeth I -
8 Renewing imperial ties: The Queen in Australia -
9 The King’s Speech: an allegory of imperial rapport -
10 The Queen has two bodies: amateur film, civic culture and the rehearsal of monarchy -
11 The regal catwalk: royal weddings and the media promotion of British fashion -
12 The Queen on the big screen(s): outdoor screens and public congregations -
13 Television’s royal family: continuity and change -
14 The Tudors and the post-national, post-historical Henry VIII -
15 From political power to the power of the image: contemporary ‘British’ cinema and the nation’s monarchs -
16 Melodrama, celebrity, The Queen -
17 When words fail: The King’s Speech as melodrama - Index
