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1 online resource (467 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Introduction; Works Cited; Part I Approaches; Chapter 2 Biopics and the Trembling Ethics of the Real; Adapting Realities; Evidence and Ethics; Decreating and Recreating Real Identities; Recreating the Real; Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 3 Biopics and the Melodramatic Mode; The Weight of Melodrama; The Biopic Body/The Melodramatic Body: Once More with Feeling; Biopic, Melodrama, and Literary Memory; Biopic Conventions as Camp; Notes; Works Cited |
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Chapter 4 Television Biopics: Questions of Genre, Nation, and MediumProblems of Genre; Television and National Identity; Conclusion: Television's Visible and Invisible Biopics; Works Cited; Chapter 5 Alexander Mackendrick's Mary Stuart and Alan Sharp's Burns: Two Unfilmed Scottish Biopics; Mary Stuart; Burns; Conclusion; Works Cited; Part II Histories; Chapter 6 The Hollywood Biopic of the Twentieth Century: A History; Shifting Definitions of Biopics; Unique Selling Points; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; Conclusions; Note; Works Cited; Chapter 7 Silent Biopics |
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Life from a Distance: Jeanne d'Arc and Peak Moment BiopicsClosing the Gap: Joan the Woman and Melodrama; Uncomfortably Close: Napoleon and The Passion of Joan of Arc; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Appendix 7.1 Brief Survey of Silent Biopics; Chapter 8 A Match Made in Heaven?: The Biopic in Pre-Revolution Russian Cinema; The Russian Biopic and the Notion of Zhanr; Russian and Western Biopics; Rediscovering Pre-Revolutionary Russian Cinema: Recent Studies; Stenka Razin, the Biopic, and the Inception of Russian Cinema |
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Russian Cinema and the Silver Age: The 1910s and the Larger Cultural ContextWorld War I and the Russian Film Market; The Revolution and Beyond; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 9 The Golden Age Hollywood Biopic: The Barretts of Wimpole Street 1934-1957; Note; Works Cited; Chapter 10 Caligula, History, and the Erotic Imagination; Caligula in History; Caligula Before Caligula; Paganography: Caligula; Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 11 Representing the Unrepresentable: The Army of Crime and Biopic Generic Conventions of Identity; Image versus Sound: Moving Beyond Epic Myths of Resistance |
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The 'Spirit' of the Truth/'Truth' of the Spirit: The Private Self and Historical RevisionismConclusion: Just Words; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 12 Nature Versus Nurture/Wilderness Versus Words: Syncretising Binaries and the Getting of Wisdom in Sean Penn's Into the Wild (2007); I NOW WALK INTO THE WILD ... with books; FABULOUS NATURE and PURE POLITICS -- Wild Baptisms; WRITING ON SCREEN and the STRUCTURE OF GROWTH; END GAME -- GRACE and FORGIVENESS, or the Apotheosis of a Wild Hero; Notes; Works Cited; Part III Sub-biopic Genres; Chapter 13 Fleming, Adaptation, and the Author Biopic; Introduction |
| Notes |
Adapting Bond? |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Biographical films -- History and criticism
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Biographical films
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Polasek, Ashley
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| ISBN |
9781119554738 |
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111955473X |
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