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The Representation of Queen Victoria in Postfeminist Biopics: Mourning and Old Age in Mrs. Brown (1997) and Victoria & Abdul (2017)

This thesis will focus on the lack of Queen Victoria’s agency in recent screen biopics by analysing and comparing the portrayal of her old age and gender in two postfeminist biopics: Mrs. Brown (1997) and Victoria & Abdul (2017). The first part will offer case studies of each film, focusing on the effect of casting and central scenes ; the second part will offer a comparative analysis. By emphasizing their similarities and differences the thesis will show the extent to which these two films reproduce postfeminist media’s portrayal of women, especially those of old age, by reducing their roles to the two elements – gender and age. Both the analyses and comparison are based on recent biographies of the Queen as well as on the work which closely researched postfeminism and its impact on media and its consumers.

Queen Victoria, Mrs. Brown, Abdul, postfeminism, biopics, old age, gender, media

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