| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 344 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
SUNY series, Horizons of cinema
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SUNY series, horizons of cinema.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Strategic patriotic memories / William H. Epstein -- Empty words: Houdini and Houdini / Murray Pomerance -- Woody Guthrie, warts and all: the biopic in the new American cinema of the 1970s / Dennis Bingham -- "Weird Andy Hardy": Ed Wood and American national identity / Constantine Verevis -- Topography and typology: Wyatt Earp and the west / Homer B Pettey -- Patton (1970): celebrating the un-American national hero / R. Barton Palmer -- J. Edgar: Eastwood's man of mystery / Douglas McFarland -- Nationalizing abject American artist: Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Jean-Michel Basquiat / Julie Codell -- Adapting Plathology: Sylvia (2003) / Claire Perkins -- "The dark lady of American photography": Steven Shainberg's Fur: an imaginary portrait of Diane Arbus (2006) / Monika Pietrzak-Franger -- The Great White Hope (1970): a forgotten biopic? / James Burns and Abel A. Bartley -- Kinsey: an inquirty into American sexual identity / Gabriele Linke -- Toward a new LGBT biopic: politics and reflexivity in Gus Van Sant's Milk (2008) / Julia G Erhart -- Speilberg's Lincoln: memorializing emancipation / R. Barton Plamer -- Afterword: The making of Americans / William H. Epstein. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Biographical films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Biographical films. |
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United States. |
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National characteristics, American, in motion pictures.
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National characteristics, American, in motion pictures. |
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United States -- In motion pictures.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Epstein, William H., editor.
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Palmer, R. Barton, 1946- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Invented lives, imagined communities. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016] 9781438460796 (DLC) 2015024377 (OCoLC)913573108 |
| ISBN |
9781438460819 (electronic book) |
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1438460813 (electronic book) |
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9781438460796 |
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1438460791 |
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