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18 Março 2020, 16:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes

III. Transmedia Victoria

Watching Victoria & Abdul, a film directed by Stephen Frears in 2017, the 70th anniversary of Indian independence, based on a book by Shrabani Basu which details Queen Victoria’s relationship with her Indian munshi (teacher). Debating the racial and religious border crossings in Frears’s film.

Readings: Plunkett, John. 2003. Queen Victoria: First Media Monarch. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 150-155.

This class meeting was held online via Colibri-Zoom.