Elizabeth I in Film and Television: A Study of the Major Portrayals

摘要

In Elizabeth I in Film and Television, academic librarian and Reference Reviews Internet Editor Bethany Latham provides a detailed encyclopaedic guide to the many portrayals of the "Virgin Queen" in film and television. The volume analyzes 18 filmic depictions of Elizabeth ranging the silent 1912 Les Amours de le Reine Elisabeth with the legendary Sarah Bernhardt to the more fantastic and whimsical homage to the Tudor monarch in Helena Bonham Carter's computer-generated portrayal of the Queen of Hearts in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010). Latham combines a careful examination of the historical record with an insightful discussion of the changing conventions of filmmaking in each section of the guide to offer a detailed account of how many versions of Elizabeth I presented reflect the changing roles she plays in the cultural imagination and how that vibrant but turbulent era of British history is perceived by modern audiences. Historians, film historians, and students of popular culture studies will find this an important study of the relationship between film and history.