Whose Lives Are They Anyway? : The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre / / Dennis Bingham
| Whose Lives Are They Anyway? : The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre / / Dennis Bingham |
| Autore | Bingham Dennis |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2010] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (445 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.4365 |
| Soggetto topico |
Biographical films -- History and criticism
Biographical films - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-56248-7
9786612562488 0-8135-4930-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Respectable Genre of Very Low Repute -- 1. Strachey’s Way, or All’s Well That Ends Welles -- 2. Rembrandt (1936) -- 3. Citizen Kane and the Biopic -- 4. Lawrence of Arabia: “But does he really deserve a place in here?” -- 5. Nixon, Oliver Stone, and the Unmaking of the Self-Made Man -- 6. Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould: Ghost Picture -- 7. Ed Wood: The Biopic of Someone Undeserving -- 8. Spike Lee’s Malcolm X: Appropriation or Assimilation? -- 9. Raoul Peck’s Lumumba: Drama, Documentary, and Postcolonial Appropriation -- 10. Prologue -- 11. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story: Toying with the Genre -- 12. I Want to Live! Criminal Woman, Male Discourses -- 13. Barbra and Julie at the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius -- 14. Hacked: Gorillas in the Mist and Other Female Biopics of the 1980's -- 15. An Angel at My Table: Re-Framing the Female Biography -- 16. Erin Brockovich: Hollywood Feminist Revisionism, after a Fashion -- 17. Twenty-First-Century Women -- 18. I’m Not There: Some Conclusions on a Book Concerning Biopics -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458273003321 |
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| New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2010] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Whose Lives Are They Anyway? : The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre / / Dennis Bingham
| Whose Lives Are They Anyway? : The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre / / Dennis Bingham |
| Autore | Bingham Dennis |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2010] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (445 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.4365 |
| Soggetto topico |
Biographical films -- History and criticism
Biographical films - History and criticism |
| ISBN |
1-282-56248-7
9786612562488 0-8135-4930-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Respectable Genre of Very Low Repute -- 1. Strachey’s Way, or All’s Well That Ends Welles -- 2. Rembrandt (1936) -- 3. Citizen Kane and the Biopic -- 4. Lawrence of Arabia: “But does he really deserve a place in here?” -- 5. Nixon, Oliver Stone, and the Unmaking of the Self-Made Man -- 6. Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould: Ghost Picture -- 7. Ed Wood: The Biopic of Someone Undeserving -- 8. Spike Lee’s Malcolm X: Appropriation or Assimilation? -- 9. Raoul Peck’s Lumumba: Drama, Documentary, and Postcolonial Appropriation -- 10. Prologue -- 11. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story: Toying with the Genre -- 12. I Want to Live! Criminal Woman, Male Discourses -- 13. Barbra and Julie at the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius -- 14. Hacked: Gorillas in the Mist and Other Female Biopics of the 1980's -- 15. An Angel at My Table: Re-Framing the Female Biography -- 16. Erin Brockovich: Hollywood Feminist Revisionism, after a Fashion -- 17. Twenty-First-Century Women -- 18. I’m Not There: Some Conclusions on a Book Concerning Biopics -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791334803321 |
Bingham Dennis
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| New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2010] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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