The filmic legacy of 'Queen Christina': Mika Kaurismäki's Girl King (2015) and Bertrand Tavernier's cinematic 'Amazons' in D'Artagnan's Daughter (1994) and The Princess of Montpensier (2010)

Severine Genieys-Kirk

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-68771-1_11

The filmic legacy of 'Queen Christina': Mika Kaurismäki's Girl King (2015) and Bertrand Tavernier's cinematic 'Amazons' in D'Artagnan's Daughter (1994) and The Princess of Montpensier (2010)

Severine Genieys-Kirk

School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures

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Within the broad framework of feminist historiography, the present study explores the filmic legacy of biopics on Christina of Sweden, most notably Rouben Mamoulian’s Queen Christina (1933) and Anthony Harvey’s The Abdication (1974) . The recent releases of Mika Kaurismäki’s Girl King (2015) and of Bernard Tavernier’s The Princess of Montpensier (2010), more than ten years after his well-received light-hearted epic D’Artagnan’s Daughter (1994) , allow for a fresh assessment of how film directors , both as mouthpieces for their audience’s expectations and as agents of ideological change, engage with the representation of the past and negotiate with controversial models of femininity. In the process, this comparative analysis seeks to consider the extent to which Kaurismäki’s and Tavernier’s films signal a new turn in the multifaceted histories of cinema and feminism.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers
Subtitle of host publication	Gender, Sex and Power in Popular Culture
Editors	Janice North, Karl C. Alvestad, Elena Woodacre
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	11
Pages	215-237
Number of pages	23
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319687711
ISBN (Print)	9783319687704
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68771-1_11
Publication status	Published - 9 Feb 2018

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Name	Queenship and Power
Publisher	Palgrave

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Genieys-Kirk, S. (2018). The filmic legacy of 'Queen Christina': Mika Kaurismäki's Girl King (2015) and Bertrand Tavernier's cinematic 'Amazons' in D'Artagnan's Daughter (1994) and The Princess of Montpensier (2010). In J. North, K. C. Alvestad, & E. Woodacre (Eds.), Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex and Power in Popular Culture (1 ed., pp. 215-237). (Queenship and Power). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68771-1_11

Genieys-Kirk, Severine. / The filmic legacy of 'Queen Christina' : Mika Kaurismäki's Girl King (2015) and Bertrand Tavernier's cinematic 'Amazons' in D'Artagnan's Daughter (1994) and The Princess of Montpensier (2010). Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex and Power in Popular Culture. editor / Janice North ; Karl C. Alvestad ; Elena Woodacre. 1. ed. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. pp. 215-237 (Queenship and Power).

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Genieys-Kirk, S 2018, The filmic legacy of 'Queen Christina': Mika Kaurismäki's Girl King (2015) and Bertrand Tavernier's cinematic 'Amazons' in D'Artagnan's Daughter (1994) and The Princess of Montpensier (2010). in J North, KC Alvestad & E Woodacre (eds), Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex and Power in Popular Culture. 1 edn, Queenship and Power, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 215-237. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68771-1_11

The filmic legacy of 'Queen Christina': Mika Kaurismäki's Girl King (2015) and Bertrand Tavernier's cinematic 'Amazons' in D'Artagnan's Daughter (1994) and The Princess of Montpensier (2010). / Genieys-Kirk, Severine.
Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex and Power in Popular Culture. ed. / Janice North; Karl C. Alvestad; Elena Woodacre. 1. ed. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. p. 215-237 (Queenship and Power).

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Genieys-Kirk S. The filmic legacy of 'Queen Christina': Mika Kaurismäki's Girl King (2015) and Bertrand Tavernier's cinematic 'Amazons' in D'Artagnan's Daughter (1994) and The Princess of Montpensier (2010). In North J, Alvestad KC, Woodacre E, editors, Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex and Power in Popular Culture. 1 ed. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2018. p. 215-237. (Queenship and Power). Epub 2018 Feb 2. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-68771-1_11

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