In Media and Entertainment
- In the 1997 movie Anastasia, the term is said many times to address the Dowager Empress Marie, Anastasia's grandmother.
- In The Princess Diaries books, Mia's grandmother is the Dowager Princess of Genovia, although she is simply known as "the Queen" in the films.
- In the video game Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn for the Nintendo Wii, one can see Ike refer to Lady Almedha as the Dowager Queen of Daein if one can enable the secret conversation regarding Soren in the Epilogue.
- The 2010 television series, Downton Abbey, features Dame Maggie Smith playing the fictional Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham.
- In science fiction author C. J. Cherryh's Foreigner universe, Ilisidi, the Aiji-dowager, grandmother of Tabini, and twice denied the throne by the hasdrawad; a house of the atevi parliament.
- In the series Thomas the Tank Engine, the Fat Controller's mother is known as Dowager Hatt.
- In Haruki Murakami's 1Q84, 'The Dowager' is is a wealthy woman in her mid-70s and one of the central characters to the plot.
Famous quotes containing the word media:
“One can describe a landscape in many different words and sentences, but one would not normally cut up a picture of a landscape and rearrange it in different patterns in order to describe it in different ways. Because a photograph is not composed of discrete units strung out in a linear row of meaningful pieces, we do not understand it by looking at one element after another in a set sequence. The photograph is understood in one act of seeing; it is perceived in a gestalt.”
—Joshua Meyrowitz, U.S. educator, media critic. “The Blurring of Public and Private Behaviors,” No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, Oxford University Press (1985)