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Author Bingham, Dennis, 1954-

Title Whose lives are they anyway? : the biopic as contemporary film genre / Dennis Bingham.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 432 pages) : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-420) and index.
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.
Summary Through detailed analyses and critiques of nearly twenty biopics, Whose Lives Are They Anyway? proves a critical point: The biopic is a genuine, dynamic genre and an important oneùit narrates, exhibits, and celebrates a subject's life and demonstrates, investigates, or questions his or her importance in the world; it illuminates the finer points of a personality; and, ultimately, it provides a medium for both artist and spectator to discover what it would be like to be that person, or a certain type of person.
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Subject Biographical films -- History and criticism.
Biographical films.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Bingham, Dennis, 1954- Whose lives are they anyway? New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2010 9780813546575 (DLC) 2009016183 (OCoLC)318970570
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