Josie Dolan
The Queen, aging femininity and the recuperation of the monarchy
Dolan, Josie
Authors
Contributors
Aagje Swinnen
Editor
John Stotesbury
Editor
Abstract
This article explores the role played by ‘aging femininity’ in the biopic, The Queen, in the recuperation of the monarchy from republican tendencies that followed from the death of Diana. The article traces how the film initially establishes a binary between age/youth, tradition/modernity, The Queen/Diana, which is then unsettled through representations of Queen Elizabeth II as an ordinary. Aging woman and suggestions that the film is revealing vulnerabilities previously cloaked by the protocols of royal spectacle. From this position, a conjunction is forged with the ‘senior sexy’ image of star Helen Mirren, a conjunction that positions Elizabeth II as the embodied resolution of the binary tensions between tradition and modernity that had underpinned the republican tendency.
Citation
Dolan, J. (2010). The Queen, aging femininity and the recuperation of the monarchy. In A. Swinnen, & J. Stotesbury (Eds.), Ageing, Perfomance and Stardom: Doing Age on the Stage of Consumerist Culture. LIT Verlag
Publication Date | Jan 1, 2010 |
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Journal | Aging Studies in Europe |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Series Title | Aging Studies in Eurpoe |
Series Number | 2 |
Book Title | Ageing, Perfomance and Stardom: Doing Age on the Stage of Consumerist Culture |
ISBN | 9783643501875 |
Keywords | aging, monarchy, Mirren, ordinariness |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/984517 |
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