Homer B. Pettey is Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at the University of Arizona. His books include Film Noir and International Noir, both coedited with Palmer. R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature and Director of the World Cinema program at Clemson University. His books include Invented Lives, Imagined Communities: The Biopic and American National Identity (coedited with William H. Epstein); Hitchcock at the Source: The Auteur as Adaptor (coedited with David Boyd); and Hitchcock's Moral Gaze (coedited with Pettey and Steven M. Sanders), all published by SUNY Press.

"…Rule, Britannia! offer[s] thought-challenging case studies that discuss a wide range of theoretical questions, opening up a large spectrum of valuable leads for research on both the biopic genre in general and its specificity in British film." — Cercles"This exceptional collection offers new ways of looking at these films as films, as well as a fresh approach to British history as a cultural whole." — Wheeler Winston Dixon

• IllustrationsPrefaceR. Barton Palmer and Homer B. PetteyAcknowledgments1. Introduction: The Kray Twins and Biographical MediaHomer B. PetteyPart I. Royalty and Politicians 2. The Biopic, the Nation, and Counter-History in the Films of Derek JarmanMarcia Landy3. Elizabeth I and the Life of Visual CultureHomer B. Pettey4. Gender and Authority in the Queen Victoria FilmsJeffrey Richards5. The Re-Centering of the Monarch in the Royal Biopic: The Queen and The King’s Speech Giselle Bastin6. The Iron Lady: Politics and/in PerformanceLinda Ruth WilliamsPart II. Artistic Biography 7. Casting the British Biopic: The Barretts of Wimpole Street 1934–1957Deborah Cartmell8. The Muse’s Tale: Rewriting the English Author in The Invisible Woman Hila Shachar9. A Matter of Life and Art: Artist Biopics in Post-Thatcher BritainJim Leach10. Closer and Closer Apart: Questioning Identities in Richard Eyre’s Iris Mark LuprechtPart III. Crimes and Warfare 11. Carving the National Body: Jack the RipperDominic Lennard12. Leslie Howard’s The First of the Few (1942): The Patriotic Biopic as Star VehicleR. Barton Palmer13. Who the Man Who Never Was, WasMurray Pomerance14. Secrecy and Exposure: The Cambridge SpiesErica SheenBibliographySelected Film, Television, Recordings, and RadioContributorsIndex

Homer B. Pettey is Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at the University of Arizona. His books include Film Noir and International Noir, both coedited with Palmer. R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature and Director of the World Cinema program at Clemson University. His books include Invented Lives, Imagined Communities: The Biopic and American National Identity (coedited with William H. Epstein); Hitchcock at the Source: The Auteur as Adaptor (coedited with David Boyd); and Hitchcock's Moral Gaze (coedited with Pettey and Steven M. Sanders), all published by SUNY Press.

"…Rule, Britannia! offer[s] thought-challenging case studies that discuss a wide range of theoretical questions, opening up a large spectrum of valuable leads for research on both the biopic genre in general and its specificity in British film." — Cercles"This exceptional collection offers new ways of looking at these films as films, as well as a fresh approach to British history as a cultural whole." — Wheeler Winston Dixon

• IllustrationsPrefaceR. Barton Palmer and Homer B. PetteyAcknowledgments1. Introduction: The Kray Twins and Biographical MediaHomer B. PetteyPart I. Royalty and Politicians 2. The Biopic, the Nation, and Counter-History in the Films of Derek JarmanMarcia Landy3. Elizabeth I and the Life of Visual CultureHomer B. Pettey4. Gender and Authority in the Queen Victoria FilmsJeffrey Richards5. The Re-Centering of the Monarch in the Royal Biopic: The Queen and The King’s Speech Giselle Bastin6. The Iron Lady: Politics and/in PerformanceLinda Ruth WilliamsPart II. Artistic Biography 7. Casting the British Biopic: The Barretts of Wimpole Street 1934–1957Deborah Cartmell8. The Muse’s Tale: Rewriting the English Author in The Invisible Woman Hila Shachar9. A Matter of Life and Art: Artist Biopics in Post-Thatcher BritainJim Leach10. Closer and Closer Apart: Questioning Identities in Richard Eyre’s Iris Mark LuprechtPart III. Crimes and Warfare 11. Carving the National Body: Jack the RipperDominic Lennard12. Leslie Howard’s The First of the Few (1942): The Patriotic Biopic as Star VehicleR. Barton Palmer13. Who the Man Who Never Was, WasMurray Pomerance14. Secrecy and Exposure: The Cambridge SpiesErica SheenBibliographySelected Film, Television, Recordings, and RadioContributorsIndex

Homer B. Pettey is Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at the University of Arizona. His books include Film Noir and International Noir, both coedited with Palmer. R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature and Director of the World Cinema program at Clemson University. His books include Invented Lives, Imagined Communities: The Biopic and American National Identity (coedited with William H. Epstein); Hitchcock at the Source: The Auteur as Adaptor (coedited with David Boyd); and Hitchcock's Moral Gaze (coedited with Pettey and Steven M. Sanders), all published by SUNY Press.

"…Rule, Britannia! offer[s] thought-challenging case studies that discuss a wide range of theoretical questions, opening up a large spectrum of valuable leads for research on both the biopic genre in general and its specificity in British film." — Cercles"This exceptional collection offers new ways of looking at these films as films, as well as a fresh approach to British history as a cultural whole." — Wheeler Winston Dixon

• IllustrationsPrefaceR. Barton Palmer and Homer B. PetteyAcknowledgments1. Introduction: The Kray Twins and Biographical MediaHomer B. PetteyPart I. Royalty and Politicians 2. The Biopic, the Nation, and Counter-History in the Films of Derek JarmanMarcia Landy3. Elizabeth I and the Life of Visual CultureHomer B. Pettey4. Gender and Authority in the Queen Victoria FilmsJeffrey Richards5. The Re-Centering of the Monarch in the Royal Biopic: The Queen and The King’s Speech Giselle Bastin6. The Iron Lady: Politics and/in PerformanceLinda Ruth WilliamsPart II. Artistic Biography 7. Casting the British Biopic: The Barretts of Wimpole Street 1934–1957Deborah Cartmell8. The Muse’s Tale: Rewriting the English Author in The Invisible Woman Hila Shachar9. A Matter of Life and Art: Artist Biopics in Post-Thatcher BritainJim Leach10. Closer and Closer Apart: Questioning Identities in Richard Eyre’s Iris Mark LuprechtPart III. Crimes and Warfare 11. Carving the National Body: Jack the RipperDominic Lennard12. Leslie Howard’s The First of the Few (1942): The Patriotic Biopic as Star VehicleR. Barton Palmer13. Who the Man Who Never Was, WasMurray Pomerance14. Secrecy and Exposure: The Cambridge SpiesErica SheenBibliographySelected Film, Television, Recordings, and RadioContributorsIndex