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Royal Portraits in Hollywood
Ford, Elizabeth A.; Mitchell, Deborah C.
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Description for Royal Portraits in Hollywood
Filmmakers from the silent era onward have displayed a deep fascination with the lives of royalty and with queens in particular. Drawing on films from the 1930s onwards, this book investigates the ways in which these films reproduce history and represent women. Num Pages: 344 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
338
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813125435
SKU
V9780813125435
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About Ford, Elizabeth A.; Mitchell, Deborah C.
Elizabeth A. Ford, professor emeritus of English at Westminster College, is coauthor, along with Deborah C. Mitchell, of The Makeover in Movies: Before and After in Hollywood Films, 1941-2002. Deborah C. Mitchell, associate professor of English at Westminster College, is author of Diane Keaton: Artist and Icon.
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