LEADER 00000cam a2200613Ia 4500 001 ocn638858491 003 OCoLC 005 20160527041609.3 006 m o d 007 cr |n||||||||| 008 100604s2010 njua ob 001 0 eng d 019 642204916|a801665114 020 9780813549309|q(electronic book) 020 0813549302|q(electronic book) 020 |z9780813546575|q(hardcover ;|qalkaline paper) 020 |z0813546575|q(hardcover ;|qalkaline paper) 020 |z9780813546582|q(paperback ;|qalkaline paper) 020 |z0813546583|q(paperback ;|qalkaline paper) 035 (OCoLC)638858491|z(OCoLC)642204916|z(OCoLC)801665114 037 22573/ctt4jxhhh|bJSTOR 040 YDXCP|beng|epn|cYDXCP|dOSU|dN$T|dCDX|dIDEBK|dOCLCQ|dEBLCP |dMHW|dUIU|dACLSE|dOCLCO|dOCLCQ|dP@U|dOCLCF|dJSTOR|dOCLCQ |dCOO|dEUW|dOCLCQ 049 RIDW 050 4 PN1995.9.B55|bB56 2010eb 072 7 PER|x004040|2bisacsh 072 7 SOC002010|2bisacsh 072 7 PER004030|2bisacsh 082 04 791.43/65|222 090 PN1995.9.B55|bB56 2010eb 100 1 Bingham, Dennis,|d1954-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ names/n93095482 245 10 Whose lives are they anyway? :|bthe biopic as contemporary film genre /|cDennis Bingham. 264 1 New Brunswick, N.J. :|bRutgers University Press,|c[2010] 264 4 |c©2010 300 1 online resource (xi, 432 pages) :|billustrations 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 347 text file|2rdaft 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-420) and index. 505 0 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. 520 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. 588 0 Print version record. 590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America 650 0 Biographical films|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ subjects/sh85014151|xHistory and criticism.|0https:// id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001187 650 7 Biographical films.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 832143 655 4 Electronic books. 655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc.|2fast|0https:// id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635 776 08 |iPrint version:|aBingham, Dennis, 1954-|tWhose lives are they anyway?|dNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2010|z9780813546575|w(DLC) 2009016183 |w(OCoLC)318970570 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=321680|zOnline eBook. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading this eBook|uhttp:// guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 901 MARCIVE 20231220 948 |d20160616|cEBSCO|tebscoebooksacademic|lridw 994 92|bRID