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A Companion to the Biopic by Cartmell, Deborah

Table of Contents: “…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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Whose lives are they anyway? : the biopic as contemporary film genre / by Bingham, Dennis, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…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) -- Citizen Kane and the biopic -- Lawrence of Arabia: "but does he really deserve a place in here?" …”
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From Chariots of fire to The king's speech : writing biopics and docudramas / by Rosenthal, Alan

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Contemporary Spanish gothic by Davies, Ann, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Heritage Gothic: Goya Biopics --…”
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Lights, camera, history : portraying the past in film

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Adaptation in contemporary culture : textual infidelities

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New queer cinema : the director's cut by Rich, B. Ruby

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Epistolary entanglements in film, media and the visual arts

Table of Contents: “…Delivering posthumous messages : Katherine Mansfield and letters in the literary biopic Leave All Fair (John Reid, 1983) /…”
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New Zealand cinema : intepreting the past

Table of Contents: “…Screening women's histories: Jane Campion and the New Zealand heritage film, from the biopic to the female gothic /…”
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A critical approach to the apocalypse / edited by Alexandra Simon-López and Heidi Yeandle.

Table of Contents: “…Facing the Global Financial Crisis and the Great Recession: The Biopic as a Socio-Cultural Response to the Collapse /…”
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Motion picture biographies : the Hollywood spin on historical figures by Cones, John W.

Table of Contents: “…The early years revisited -- Biopics of the 1930s -- Motion picture Biographies of the 1940s -- The peak mid-century years -- Motion picture biographies of the turbulent 1960s -- Biopics of the 1970s -- Movie biographies of the 1980s -- Biopics of the early 1990s -- Concluding observations -- Selected bibliography -- Articles, films, media reports and papers -- Books -- About the author -- Other books by the same author.…”
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Biofiction and writers' afterlives

Table of Contents: “…Onceness, biofiction, and the living body / Maggie Gee -- 'Time passes' in Maggie Gee's Virginia Woolf in Manhattan (2014) / Elisabetta Varalda -- Biofiction as corrective justice in Ellen Hawkes and Peter Manso's The shadow of the moth: a novel of espionage with Virginia Woolf (1984) / Monica Latham -- Adeline: a novel of Virginia Woolf (2015) as reflective biography / Elaine Hudson -- Part four: Biofiction and the biopic. Contrarians at the gate: biofiction, the anti-biopic and I, Tonya (2017) / Virginia Newhall Rademacher -- 'Unwrapping Lady Lazarus': female creativity and suicide in The hours (2002) and Sylvia (2003) / Chloe de Lullington…”
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Framing pictures : film and the visual arts by Jacobs, Steven, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER 1 Camera and Canvas: Emmer, Storck, Resnais and the Post-war Art Film -- CHAPTER 2 Vasari in Hollywood: Artists and Biopics -- CHAPTER 3 Galleries of the Gaze: The Museum in Rossellini's Viaggio in Italia and Hitchcock's Vertigo -- CHAPTER 4 Tableaux Vivants 1: Painting, Film, Death and Passion Plays in Pasolini and Godard -- CHAPTER 5 Tableaux Vivants 2: Film Stills and Contemporary Photography -- CHAPTER 6 The Video That Knew Too Much: Hitchcock, Contemporary Art and Post-Cinema -- Appendix to Chapter 2: Artist Biopics -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Feminist film studies by Hollinger, Karen

Table of Contents: “…-- Films in focus: Vertigo -- Women and genre: from the woman's film to chick flicks -- Films in focus: Stella Dallas and The devil wears Prada -- Women and avant-garde and documentary filmmaking -- Films in focus 1: Meshes of the afternoon -- Films in focus 2: Je, tu, il, elle -- Films in focus 3: Shut up and sing -- Lesbian film criticism -- Films in focus: Desert hearts -- Women in the adaptation and biopic -- Films in focus 1: Sense and sensibility -- Films in focus 2: Frida -- Feminist film studies and race -- Films in focus: Illusions -- Films in focus 2: Fire -- The woman auteur -- Films in focus: Margarethe von Trotta -- The actress -- Films in focus: Susan Sarandon and Thelma and Louise.…”
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The encyclopedia of musicians and bands on film by Goldsmith, Melissa Ursula Dawn, Willson, Paige A., 1970-, Fonseca, Anthony J.

Table of Contents: “…READER'S NOTE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; APPENDIX A: FILMS BY COUNTRY; APPENDIX B: WHO'S WHO AMONG DIRECTORS AND THEIR FILMS; APPENDIX C: DRAMAS; APPENDIX D: COMEDIES; APPENDIX E: MUSICIAN(S)/COMPOSER(S) IN BIOPICS AND FILMS WITH BIOPIC ELEMENTS; APPENDIX F: FILMS THAT EMPHASIZE CLASSICAL, CONCERT, AND TRADITIONAL MUSIC, MUSICIANS, OR COMPOSERS; APPENDIX G: FILMS THAT EMPHASIZE ROCK MUSIC; APPENDIX H: FILMS THAT EMPHASIZE BLUES, JAZZ, OR RAGTIME MUSIC, MUSICIANS, AND BANDS…”
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Composers in the movies : studies in musical biography by Tibbetts, John C.

Table of Contents: “…The classical style: composers in the studio era -- A song remembered: Frédéric Chopin goes to war -- The new Tin Pan Alley: Hollywood looks at American popular songwriters -- "Just an innocent bystander": the composer films of Ken Russell -- "A long, dark coda into the night": the composer films of Tony Palmer -- Revisionist portraits: a medley of recent composer biopics.…”
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Left of Hollywood : cinema, modernism, and the emergence of U.S. radical film culture by Robé, Chris, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Popular Front film criticism -- Taking Hollywood back : gendered histories of the Hollywood costume drama, the biopic, and Jean Renoir's La Marseillaise -- Conclusion : fragments of the future.…”
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'Funny or Die' cashes in on Steve Jobs movie craze

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Off key : when film and music won't work together by Dickinson, Kay, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The status and the potential of film-music that "doesn't work" -- The motion picture you're about to see is a story of music : the migration of cinema into rock 'n' roll -- It's not only trivial, It's bad, vulgar : Ken Russell's composer biopics and the uneasy realignment of work and culture -- Troubling synthesis : the horrific sights and incompatible sounds of "video nasties" -- Pop stars who "can't act" and the limits of celebrity "flexibility" -- The problems of conclusion.…”
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French costume drama of the 1950s : fashioning politics in film by Hayward, Susan, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Setting the terrain: France 1796-1888 -- Representing history: 1796-1814 Napoleon Bonaparte/Napoleon I -- Representing the social: restoration-July Monarchy (1814-1848) -- Epic grandeur: part one, philanthropists -- Epic grandeur: part two, avengers -- From the Second to the Third Republic: innovation, corruption and new identities -- The Second Empire in the pink: violets, waltzes, and the pursuit of knowledge -- The Second Empire in the raw: Martine Carol's celebrity courtesans -- From Empire to Republic: a modernized France emerging -- Censoring the classics: Bel-Ami, Louis Daquin (1954; released in France 1957) -- Belle Epoque mania: Paris, the provinces and biopics. Belle Epoque films: an overview -- Parisian society of the Belle Epoque through film -- Truth and lies and the pursuit of marriage: love intrigues outside Paris -- Making li(v)es: Belle Epoque biopics -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix: French costume drama of the 1950s -- Index.…”
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Dead yet alive

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Lights, camera, history : portraying the past in film

Table of Contents: “…Rollins -- In praise of the biopic / Robert Rosentone -- History is what remains: cinema's challenge to ideas about the past / Geoff Pingree -- Crusaders and Saracens: the persistence of orientalism in historically themed motion pictures about the Middle East / Richard Francaviglia -- "The truth wrapped in a package of lies": Hollywood, history, and Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York / Daniel A. …”
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The documentary handbook by Lee-Wright, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Talk to the camera -- Reportage -- Exposé : investigations, undercover and the so-jo -- From lectures to landmarks : history and ideas -- Vox populi : the voice of the people -- Observe the people -- Real life -- Docu-soap and mocu-soap -- Extreme television : flashing lights and freak shows -- Change the mind -- Education -- Propaganda -- Polemic -- Liberation -- Entertainment for all -- Formats and reality tv -- Lifestyle : house and garden, makeover and motors, food and travel -- Performance and performers -- Drama-doc and docu-drama -- Art and anarchy -- Watch the figures -- Box office -- Biopics -- Wildlife.…”
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Hollywood Asian : Philip Ahn and the politics of cross-ethnic performance by Chung, Hye Seung, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…I: Asian American acts: performance and spectatorship -- Portrait of a Patriot's son: Philip Ahn and Korean diasporic identities in Hollywood -- The audience who knew too much: Oriental masquerade and ethnic recognition among Asian Americans -- II: Oriental genres, 1930s to 1950s -- Between yellowphilia and yellowphobia: Asian American romance in Oriental detective films -- State intervention in the imaging of Orientals in China films of the 1930s and 1940s -- Hollywood goes to Korea: war, melodrama, and the biopic politics of battle hymn -- Becoming "Father," becoming Asian American.…”
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Transnational feminist rhetorics and gendered leadership in global politics : from daughters of destiny to iron ladies by Richards, Rebecca S., 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Rebecca Dingo -- Confronting the doxa of the nation-state: transnational rhetorics and women world leaders -- Daughters of destiny: narrations of the nation-state in autobiographies of women world leaders -- Rewriting public histories: political women, embodied mimicry, and the biopic -- Access denied: creating a corporate rhetor for women world leaders -- Will the real "iron lady" please stand up?…”
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The Letters of Cole Porter by Porter, Cole, 1891-1964

Table of Contents: “…From Peru, Indiana, to Broadway, 1891-1919 -- Cole Porter in Europe, 1918-1928 -- Porter's return to the United States, 1928-1937 -- Settled -- and injured -- in New York, 1937-1944 -- A Porter biopic and two flops, 1945-1947 -- Kiss me, Kate, 1948 -- From Kiss me, Kate to Out of this world, 1949-1950 -- From limbo to the writing of Can-can, 1951-1952 -- Two last Broadway hits, Can-can and Silk stockings, 1953-1954 -- Porter's last musicals, 1955-1957 -- The final years, 1958-1964.…”
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Segunda vez / Second time around

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Andy Kaufman : wrestling with the American dream by Keller, Florian

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Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent. by Bernstein, Matthew

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Warners wiseguys : all 112 films that Robinson, Cagney and Bogart made for the studio by Nollen, Scott Allen

Table of Contents: “…Eddie G., Boss of the Biopic -- 10. Perilous Pard and That Bastard Bogart -- 11. …”
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World's greatest architect : making, meaning, and network culture by Mitchell, William J. (William John), 1944-2010

Table of Contents: “…Kicking the bottle -- Paper wonders -- Viva Venturi -- Sin no more -- Loveliest of trees -- Alberti's anniversary -- The Net has a thousand eyes -- Surveillance cookbook -- Forget foreign wars -- Everyday low -- Texas chain store -- Right place at the wrong time -- Best practices -- Mama don't take my megapixels -- Instruments and algorithms -- Theory of black holes -- Elegy in a landfill -- Theory of everything -- Deep focus -- Dappled things --- Morphology of the biopic -- Little blue coupe -- Bicycle socialism -- Faux book -- Man of steel -- It's not easy -- Imagined Wall Street -- The eagle flies -- Architectural assassination -- Urban plastination -- Civic immunology -- World's greatest architect.…”
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Johnny Cash and philosophy : the Burning Ring of Truth. by Huss, John, 1963-

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Directory of World Cinema. by Beumers, Birgit

Table of Contents: “…; Directors; Evgenii Bauer; Sergei Eisenstein; Dziga Vertov; Andrei Tarkovskii; Nikita Mikhalkov; Aleksandr Sokurov; Historical Film; Essay; Reviews; War Film; Essay; Reviews; Comedy and Musical Comedy; Essay; Reviews; Melodrama; Essay; Reviews; Reviews; Literary Adaptation; Essay; Biopic; Essay; Reviews; Action/Red Western.…”
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Speaking truths with film : evidence, ethics, politics in documentary by Nichols, Bill, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Documentary film and the modernist avant-garde -- Documentary reenactment and the fantasmatic subject -- Letter to Lynn Sachs on Investigation of a flame -- Breaking the frame : gender, violation, and the avant-garde -- Documentary film and the coming of sound -- To see the world anew : revisiting the voice of documentary -- The sound of music -- The question of evidence : the power of rhetoric and the documentary film -- The terrorist event -- Remaking history : Jay Leyda and the compilation film -- Restrepo : a case of inadvertent evidence -- The symptomatic biopic : Steve Jobs : the man in the machine -- Documentary ethics : doing the right thing -- Irony, paradox, and the documentary : double meanings and double binds -- Letter to Errol Morris : feelings of revulsion and the limits of academic discourse -- Perpetrators, trauma, and film -- San Francisco newsreel : collectives, politics, films -- The political documentary and the question of impact.…”
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Genre and performance. by Cornea, Christine

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Editorâ#x80;#x99;s introduction; 1 Film noir: gesture under pressure; 2 Captured ghosts: horror acting in the 1970s British television drama; 3 Docudrama performance: realism, recognition and representation; 4 Living stories: performance in the contemporary biopic; 5Borders and boundaries in Deadwood; 6 The Colbert Report: performing the news as parody for the postmodern viewer; 7 Contemporary comedy performance in British sitcom; 8 2-D performance and the re-animated actor in science fiction cinema.…”
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Music, Movies, Meanings, and Markets : Cinemajazzamatazz. by Holbrook, Morris

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Floyd Abrams : speaking freely

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Screenwriting That Matters. by Beker, Marilyn

Table of Contents: “…Issue Map/Biography of Main Character Angela-A Native American Rights Activist5 ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS; Labor Practices: Norma Rae; Gay and Discrimination Issues: Philadelphia; Censorship: Good Morning Vietnam; Euthanasia: Million Dollar Baby; Abortion: Vera Drake; 6 TRUE OR FALSE; Legal Precautions; 7 PLAN OF ATTACK; The Sherlock/Snitch: The Investigation/Whistleblower Model; The Lawyer-Up: The Trial Model; The Heart-Tugger: The Relationship Model; The Chuckle: The Satirical Model; The Life: The Biopic Model; The Yoda: The Mentor Model; The Shining Knight: The Hero/Rescuer Model.…”
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The January children by Elhillo, Safia

Table of Contents: “….] -- Late-night phone call with abdelhalim hafez -- Republic of the sudan / ministry of interior / passport & immigration general directorate / alien from sudanese origin passcard -- Talking with an accent about home -- Talking with an accent about home (second take) -- Second quarantine with abdelhalim hafez -- Portrait with asylum -- Talking to boys about abdelhalim hafez at parties -- Biopic containing lies about abdelhalim hafez -- Asmarani does psychogeography -- Why abdelhalim -- Self-portrait with lake nasser -- Abdelhalim hafez asks who the sudanese are -- The part i keep forgetting -- Talking with an accent about home (reprise) -- Third quarantine with abdelhalim hafez -- Final interview for the position of abdelhalim hafez's girl -- Self-portrait as abdelhalim hafez's girl.…”
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