Abstract
This essay considers the relationship between the materiality of the 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and fantasies of televisual transport involved in the transatlantic broadcast. The archival materials discussed in this essay help tell a complex history of the labors involved in the televised coronation ceremony, concerns about the Queen’s embodiment in front of television cameras, and the management of both through publicity and the aesthetics of ceremonial television coverage. The essay traces the foundations and evolution of the vexed relationship between materiality and representation to its more-contemporary manifestation of the Queen as a laboring and gendered body in the 2012 Jubilee celebrations.
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Clark, Jennifer
(2015)
"Queen for a Day: Representation, Materiality, and Gender in Elizabeth II’s Televised Coronation,"
The Journal of e-Media Studies: Vol. 4:
Iss.
1, Article 5.
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1938-6060.A.449
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/joems/vol4/iss1/5