TY  - BOOK
AU  - Merck,Mandy
TI  - The British monarchy on screen
T2  - Knowledge Unlatched
SN  - 152611304X
AV  - PN1995.9.Q35 
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Queens in motion pictures
KW  - Kings and rulers in motion pictures
KW  - Royal houses
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Film theory and criticism
KW  - Film, TV and radio
KW  - Films, cinema
KW  - The arts
KW  - ART
KW  - General
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS
KW  - Film & Video
KW  - History & Criticism
KW  - film theory & criticism
KW  - media and communications
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1wn0s87
ER  -