From Chariots of fire to The king's speech : writing biopics and docudramas /
Over the past decade, movie audiences have become hungry for films based on real people and historical events. Never was this more evident than during the best-picture showdown between The King's Speech and The Social Network during the 2011 Academy Awards, a scene then repeated, with Argo, Lin...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
2013.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | Over the past decade, movie audiences have become hungry for films based on real people and historical events. Never was this more evident than during the best-picture showdown between The King's Speech and The Social Network during the 2011 Academy Awards, a scene then repeated, with Argo, Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty in the 2013 awards. While Hollywood moguls have come to recognize the box-office revenue and critical acclaim that accompany such films and are now fast-tracking many docudramas into theaters, there remains a need for more reality-based film scripts. In From "Chariots of Fire" t |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource |
Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780809332991 080933299X 1306370221 9781306370226 |