An edition of Whose lives are they anyway?
(2010)
Whose lives are they anyway?
the biopic as contemporary film genre
by Dennis Bingham
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Whose lives are they anyway?: the biopic as contemporary film genre
2010, Rutgers University Press
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0813546575 9780813546575
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Table of Contents
Introduction: a respectable genre of very low repute
Book one: the great man biopic and its discontents. Strachey's way, or all's well that ends Welles: certain tendencies of the film biography
Rembrandt (1936)
Flashback/flashforward: Citizen Kane and the biopic
"But does he really deserve a place ... in here?": Lawrence of Arabia and the subject-turned-object
Nixon, Oliver Stone, and the unmaking of the self-made man p.s.: W.
Ghost picture: 32 short films about Glenn Gould
Lust for tripe: the biopic of someone who doesn't deserve one
Appropriation or assimilation, or the postclassical biopic and African American subjects: Spike Lee's Malcolm X
Raoul Peck's Lumumba: drama, documentary, and the post-colonial appropriation
Book two: a woman's life is never done. Prologue
Toying with the genre, or the bare bones of the female biopic: superstar: The Karen Carpenter story
Criminal woman, male discourses, and female biopics: I want to live!
Barbra and Julie at the dawning of the age of Aquarius: biopics and the fall of the female star
Funny girl
Star!
Suffocation: female biopics of the 1980s
Gorillas in the mist
Re-framing the female biography: An angel at my table
"She's like a superhero": Erin Brockovich and Hollywood feminist revisionism, after a fashion
Notorious, or present and future lives of the female biopics
The notorious Bettie Page: feminism, 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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