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Bingham, Dennis, (1954-)

Whose lives are they anyway?the biopic ascontemporary film genre /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Whose lives are they anyway?Dennis Bingham.
Reminder of title:	the biopic ascontemporary film genre /
Author:	Bingham, Dennis,
Published:	New Brunswick, N.J. :Rutgers University Press,c2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 432 p.) :ill.
Subject:	Biographical filmsHistory and criticism.
Online resource:	Full text available:
ISBN:	9780813549309 (electronic bk.)

Whose lives are they anyway?the biopic ascontemporary film genre /
Bingham, Dennis,1954-

Whose lives are they anyway?the biopic ascontemporary film genre /[electronic resource] :Dennis Bingham. - New Brunswick, N.J. :Rutgers University Press,c2010. - 1 online resource (xi, 432 p.) :ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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) -- CitizenKane 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: -- EdWood: 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.

ISBN: 9780813549309 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

292336
Biographical films
--History and criticism.

LC Class. No.: PN1995.9.B55 / B56 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 791.43/65

Whose lives are they anyway?the biopic ascontemporary film genre /
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