LEADER 02295nam 2200397 450 001 9910555146803321 005 20191219085646.0 010 $a1-119-55479-9 010 $a1-119-55473-X 035 $a(CKB)4940000000149081 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5986242 035 $a(EXLCZ)994940000000149081 100 $a20191219d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 02$aA companion to the biopic /$fedited by Deborah Jayne Cartmell, Ashley Dawn Polasek 210 1$aHoboken, NJ :$cJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc.,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (467 pages) 311 $a1-119-55481-0 330 $a"Despite being undoubtedly the most hated of all film genres, the biopic has endured since the very beginning of cinema. A review of the biopic of Alan Turing, The Imitation Game (dir. Morten Tyldum 2014), sums up the general contempt for the genre itself: "sometimes it feels like a line is being crossed. I really wasn't sure which side I was on with the Turing movie-certainly knowing how much was wrong with it was damaging to my enjoyment of it, but did that make it bad art? In the end I think it did because it was all just so unnecessary and generic, and so persistent...Good acting, direction, sets etc....though" ("Two NYRB Essays"). Biopics are routinely dismissed as bad art, shallow, formulaic, inauthentic and disrespectful of history. Among the biopic's many decriers are film critics, literary scholars, historians, politicians, journalists and anyone wedded to the notion that portraits of individuals should be "true" to life. But as the reviewer of The Imitation Game begrudgingly admits, these films are often very watchable, essentially due to the performance of the lead actor"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aBiographical films$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aBiographical films$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a791.43651 700 $aCartmell$b Deborah$0594107 702 $aCartmell$b Deborah 702 $aPolasek$b Ashley Dawn$f1985- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910555146803321 996 $aA companion to the biopic$92816270 997 $aUNINA