Whose Lives Are They Anyway?
The Biopic As Contemporary Film Genre.

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Authors and Corporations: Bingham, Dennis
published: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2010.
©2010.
Media Type: Book, E-Book

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Physical Description: 1 online resource (445 pages)
ISBN: 9780813549309
Edition: 1st ed.
Language: English
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Print version:: Bingham, Dennis, Whose Lives Are They Anyway?, Piscataway : Rutgers University Press,c2010
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Table of Contents

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Intro
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Respectable Genre of Very Low Repute
Book One: The Great (White) Man Biopic and Its Discontents
1. Strachey's Way, or All's Well That Ends Welles
2. Rembrandt
3. Citizen Kane and the Biopic
4. Lawrence of Arabia: "But does he really deserve a place in here?
5. Nixon, Oliver Stone, and the Unmaking of the Self-Made Man
P.S.: W.
6. Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould: Ghost Picture
7. Ed Wood: The Biopic of Someone Undeserving
8. Spike Lee's Malcolm X: Appropriation or Assimilation?
9. Raoul Peck's Lumumba: Drama, Documentary, and Postcolonial Appropriation
Book Two: A Woman's Life is Never Done: Female Biopics
10. Prologue
11. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story: Toying with the Genre
12. I Want to Live! Criminal Woman, Male Discourses
13. Barbra and Julie at the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius
Funny Girl
Star!
14. Hacked: Gorillas in the Mist and Other Female Biopics of the 1980s
15. An Angel at My Table: Re-Framing the Female Biography
16. Erin Brockovich: Hollywood Feminist Revisionism, after a Fashion
17. Twenty-First-Century Woman
The Notorious Bettie Page: Free Will and God's Will
Marie Antoinette: The Female Biopic Gets the Guillotine
18. I'm Not There: Some Conclusions on a Book Concerning Biopics.