9 The King’s Speech

Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of figures vii
4. List of contributors x
5. Acknowledgements xv
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I: Victorian inventions
8. 1 ‘A very wonderful process’ 23
9. 2 Sixty Years a Queen (1913) 47
10. 3 The heart of a heartless political world 64
11. 4 Walbrook’s royal waltzes 86
12. Part II: The Elizabethan diva
13. 5 Her Majesty moves 111
14. 6 Elizabeth I 132
15. 7 Queens and queenliness 155
16. Part III: Images of empire
17. 8 Renewing imperial ties 181
18. 9 The King’s Speech 205
19. 10 The Queen has two bodies 225
20. 11 The regal catwalk 243
21. 12 The Queen on the big screen(s) 264
22. Part V: Television’s contested histories
23. 13 Television’s royal family 291
24. 14 The Tudors and the post-national, post-historical Henry VIII 309
25. Part VI: Monarchy in contemporary anglophone cinema
26. 15 From political power to the power of the image 339
27. 16 Melodrama, celebrity, The Queen 363
28. 17 When words fail 384
29. Index 406