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Their has been an avalanche of apocalyptic imagery spewing from the big screen. It's everywhere, and not only in films about the end of civilization. This book describes and discusses this phenomenon, a product of its cultural surround.

The plots of many films pivot on the moment when a dowdy girl with bad hair

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 film...