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Whose lives are they anyway? : the biopic as contemporary film genre /

Through detailed analyses and critiques of nearly twenty biopics, Whose Lives Are They Anyway? proves a critical point: The biopic is a genuine, dynamic genre and an important oneùit narrates, exhibits, and celebrates a subject's life and demonstrates, investigates, or questions his or her imp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bingham, Dennis, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2010.
Colección:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: a respectable genre of very low repute
  • Book one: the great (White) man biopic and its discontents. Strachey's way, or all's well that ends Welles
  • Rembrandt (1936)
  • Citizen Kane and the biopic
  • Lawrence of Arabia: "but does he really deserve a place in here?"
  • Nixon, Oliver Stone, and the unmaking of the self-made man
  • P.S.: W.
  • Thirty two short films about Glenn Gould: ghost picture
  • Ed Wood: the biopic of someone undeserving
  • Spike Lee's Malcolm X: appropriation or assimilation?
  • Raoul Peck's Lumumba: drama, documentary, and the postcolonial appropriation
  • Book two: a woman's life is never done: female biopics. Prologue
  • Superstar: The Karen Carpenter story: toying with the genre
  • I want to live!: criminal woman, male discourses
  • Barbra and Julie at the dawning of the Age of Aquarius
  • Funny girl
  • Star!
  • Hacked: Gorillas in the mist and other female biopics in the 1980s
  • An angel at my table: re-framing the female biography
  • Erin Brockovich: Hollywood feminist revisionism, after a fashion
  • Twenty-first-century women
  • The notorious Bettie Page: free will, and God's will
  • Marie Antoinette: the female biopic gets the guillotine
  • I'm not there: some conclusions on a book concerning biopics.