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oapen-20.500.12657-295892021-11-08T09:22:40Z The British Monarchy On Screen Merck, Mandy Media & Communications Elizabeth I of England Victoria (Australia) bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AP Film, TV & radio::APF Films, cinema::APFA Film theory & criticism 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’. 2018-07-30 23:55 2020-03-12 03:00:29 2020-04-01T12:33:18Z 2020-04-01T12:33:18Z 2016-02-01 book 1000343 OCN: 945438080 9781526113047 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29589 eng application/pdf n/a 1000343.pdf Manchester University Press 10.7228/manchester/9780719099564.001.0001 103497 10.7228/manchester/9780719099564.001.0001 6110b9b4-ba84-42ad-a0d8-f8d877957cdd b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781526113047 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Manchester 103473 KU Round 2 605453 Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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’.
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