02456nam 2200337 a 450 99624818950331620211214190857.0(dli)HEB08212(CKB)3400000000085037(EXLCZ)99340000000008503720090417d2010 ub 0engurmnummmmuuuuWhose lives are they anyway?[electronic resource] the biopic as contemporary film genre /Dennis BinghamNew Brunswick, N.JRutgers University Pressc2010xi, 432 p. ill. ;26 cmOriginal 9780813546575 0813546575 9780813546582 0813546583 (DLC) 2009016183 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.ACLS Humanities E-Book.Whose Lives Are They Anyway?Biographical filmsHistory and criticismBiographical filmsHistory and criticism.Bingham Dennis1954-1047349American Council of Learned Societies.NyNyACLNyNyACLBOOK996248189503316Whose Lives Are They Anyway2474861UNISA