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The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture

By Tom Brown (editor) , Belén Vidal (editor)

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
ISBN
0415899400, 9780415899406
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3473769 bytes)
Series
AFI Film Readers
Edition
1
Pages
328\325
Time added
2021-09-30 02:42:21

Description

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. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents list of illustrations acknowledgments introduction: the biopic and its critical contexts part one: cultural shifts 1. facebooking the present: the biopic and cultural instantaneity 2. the contemporary french biopic in national and international contexts 3. the biopic of the new middle classes in contemporary hindi cinema 4. recycling historical lives: south korean period biopics and the culture content industry part two: cycles and performance 5. performing performers: embodiment and intertextuality in the contemporary biopic 6. consensual pleasures: amazing grace, oratory, and the middlebrow biopic 7. morgan/sheen: the compressed frame of impersonation 8. gender, genius, and abjection in artist biopics 9. chanel on screen: female biopics in the age of global branding part three: icons and auteurs 10. cinematic boundaries: aleksandr sokurov’s the sun as liminal biopic 11. history in the making: sofia coppola’s marie antoinette and the new auteurism 12. i’m not there: transcendent thanatography 13. il divo: the biopic, counter-history, and cine/politics in the twenty-first century 14. gainsbourg: puppetry in the musical biopic bibliography contributors about the american film institute index

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