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Whose lives are they anyway? the biopic as contemporary film genre / Dennis Bingham.
| Author/creator | Bingham, Dennis, 1954- |
| Other author | American Council of Learned Societies. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, |
| Description | xi, 432 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from ACLS Humanities E-Book |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009016183 |
| ISBN | 9780813546575 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0813546575 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780813546582 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0813546583 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |