Queen Christina of Sweden -- Catherine the Great -- Cleopatra -- Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland -- Queen Victoria -- Marie Antoinette -- Queen Elizabeth I
Summary
Few lives provide as much history or drama as those of monarchs. Filmmakers from the silent era to onward have displayed a deep fascination with the lives of royalty and with queens in particular. Still, the question remains: what do these films really tell us about the women beneath the crowns?Drawing on films from the 1930s to those of today, Royal Portraits in Hollywood: Filming the Lives of Queens investigates the ways in which these films reproduce history and represent women. Though hardly progressive in nature, many early films offered an acceptable, nonthreatening way to present strong
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-311) and index
