ABSTRACT

Except for a brief representation of her as a child in The King’s Speech (2010), Queen Elizabeth II’s life has been adapted to the screen through The Queen (2006) and A Royal Night Out (2015). Moreover, the release of the TV series The Crown has added a new perspective to the ways in which the queen’s life has been revised, rewritten, and adapted, although the dynamics of film and of television remain dissimilar. When analyzed in a singular framework, the three movies and the four seasons of the TV series provide an adapted version of the life of Queen Elizabeth II as biopics, providing alternative biographical representations, fictionalized versions of what is believed to be factual material. More significantly, such adaptations of history could be analyzed as simulations, and the historical figures they represent as simulacra. In this framework, this study analyzes Queen Elizabeth II’s biopics as adaptations of personal history to claim that all such versions of history are radically adaptive and revisionist in their very nature. The study also argues that, if these biopics are to be accepted as simulations, the fidelity debate would be rendered obsolete.

摘要

除了《国王的演讲》 （2010 年）中对她童年的简短描述外，伊丽莎白二世女王的生活还通过《女王》（2006 年）和《皇家夜生活》（2015 年）被搬上银幕。此外，电视剧《王冠》的上映尽管电影和电视的动态仍然不同，但女王的生活被修改、改写和改编的方式增加了新的视角。当在单一框架中进行分析时，这三部电影和电视剧的四个季节提供了伊丽莎白二世女王传记片的改编版本，提供了另类的传记表现，以及被认为是事实材料的虚构版本。更重要的是，这种对历史的改编可以作为模拟进行分析，而它们所代表的历史人物可以作为拟像进行分析。在此框架下，本研究将伊丽莎白二世女王的传记片分析为个人历史的改编，声称所有这些版本的历史本质上都是激进的适应性和修正主义。该研究还认为，