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001 2009016183
003 DLC
005 20100715085135.0
008 090417s2010 njua b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2009016183
020 $a9780813546575 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a0813546575 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a9780813546582 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a0813546583 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn318970570
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dYDX$dYDXCP$dBWX$dCDX$dDLC
050 00 $aPN1995.9.B55$bB56 2010
082 00 $a791.43/65$222
100 1 $aBingham, Dennis,$d1954-
245 10 $aWhose lives are they anyway? :$bthe biopic as contemporary film genre /$cDennis Bingham.
260 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. :$bRutgers University Press,$cc2010.
300 $axi, 432 p. :$bill. ;$c26 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
650 0 $aBiographical films$xHistory and criticism.