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      The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture
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      The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture

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      The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture book

      Edited ByTom Brown, Belén Vidal
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2013
      eBook Published 16 December 2013
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203384572
      Pages 328
      eBook ISBN 9780203384572
      Subjects Humanities
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      Brown, T., & Vidal, B. (Eds.). (2013). The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203384572

      ABSTRACT

      The biographical film or biopic is a staple of film production in all major film industries and yet, within film studies, its generic, aesthetic, and cultural significance has remained underexplored. The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture fills this gap, conceptualizing the biopic with a particular eye toward the "life" of the genre internationally. New theoretical approaches combine with specially commissioned chapters on contemporary biographical film production in India, Italy, South Korea, France, Russia, Great Britain, and the US, in order to present a selective but well-rounded portrait of the biopic’s place in film culture.

      From Marie Antoinette to The Social Network, the pieces in this volume critically examine the place of the biopic within ongoing debates about how cinema can and should represent history and "real lives." Contributors discuss the biopic’s grounding in the conventions of the historical film, and explore the genre’s defining traits as well as its potential for innovation. The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture expands the critical boundaries of this evolving, versatile genre.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |32 pages

      Introduction: the biopic and its critical contexts

      ByBelén Vidal

      part |68 pages

      Cultural shifts

      chapter |17 pages

      Facebooking the present

      The biopic and cultural instantaneity
      ByRebecca A. Sheehan

      chapter |16 pages

      The contemporary french biopic in national and international contexts

      ByRaphaëlle Moine

      chapter |16 pages

      The biopic of the new middle classes in contemporary hindi cinema

      ByRachel Dwyer

      chapter |17 pages

      Recycling historical lives

      South korean period biopics and the culture content industry
      ByYun Mi Hwang

      part |94 pages

      Cycles and performance

      chapter |15 pages

      Performing performers

      Embodiment and intertextuality in the contemporary biopic
      ByLucy Fife Donaldson

      chapter |22 pages

      Consensual pleasures

      Amazing grace, oratory, and the middlebrow biopic
      ByTom Brown

      chapter |19 pages

      Morgan/Sheen

      The compressed frame of impersonation
      ByBelén Vidal

      chapter |17 pages

      Gender, genius, and abjection in artist biopics

      ByJulie F. Codell

      chapter |19 pages

      Chanel on screen

      Female biopics in the age of global branding
      ByGinette Vincendeau

      part |79 pages

      Icons and auteurs

      chapter |15 pages

      Cinematic boundaries

      Aleksandr sokurov's the sun as liminal biopic
      ByAlastair Phillips

      chapter |15 pages

      History in the making

      Sofia coppola's marie antoinette and the new auteurism
      ByPam Cook

      chapter |16 pages

      I'm not there

      Transcendent thanatography
      ByJesse Schlotterbeck

      chapter |16 pages

      Il divo

      The biopic, counter-history, and cine/politics in the twenty-first century
      ByMarcia Landy

      chapter |15 pages

      Gainsbourg

      Puppetry in the musical biopicy
      ByRobert Burgoyne
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