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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.