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    Queen Elizabeth I in Selected Movies: A Barthesian- Historicist Approach to Modern British Myth
    (Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi-Ouzou, 2015) TERKI Nassima
    The present research paper is entitled Queen Elizabeth I in Selected Movies: a Barthesian-Historicist Approach to Modern British Myth. It highlights the way Queen Elizabeth I’s biography has been adapted and updated by filmmakers since the end of World War II. To look at the representation of this Tudor Monarch, I throw light on selected snapshots taken from four selected biographical films: The Virgin Queen (1955), Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), Elizabeth (1998) and Elizabeth: the Golden Age (2007) with the use of Roland Barthes theoretical framework developed in Mythologies (1972), Image- Music-Text (1977) and Elements of Semiology (1986).The analysis of selected snapshots in the films shows that this Tudor Queen is depicted as a heterogeneous character. She is associated with very different political social and cultural values. The different representations are drawn to adapt her image to the circumstances of the film’s production and release. Finally, her image is used to help the nation readjust itself to face the different the challenges of post-Empire Britain.