Adaptation, intermediality and the British celebrity biopic /
Minier, Márta,editor.
Pennacchia, Maddalena,editor.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the biopic: an introduction / Márta Minier and Maddalena Pennacchia -- Culturally British Bio(e)pics: from Elizabeth to The King's Speech / Maddalena Pennacchia -- Life and Death in the Media Spotlight: The People's Princess as Royal Celebrity / Alessandra Ruggiero -- Reframing the Royal Performance: Helen Mirren's "Transformative Acting" and Celebrity Self-presentation in The Queen / Isobel Johnston -- Joining History to Celebiography and Heritage to Documentary on the Small Screen: Spotlight on the Content of the Form in the Metamediatic Royal Bio-docudrama The Queen / Márta Minier -- Shakespeare's Life on Film and Television: Shakespeare in Love and A Waste of Shame / Paul Franssen -- Austenmania, or the Female Biopic as Literary Heritage / Margarida Esteves Pereira -- Beyond "Sex and Drugs and Lyrical Ballads": High In/fidelity in Julien Temple's Pandaemonium / Liz Jones -- "Screening" the Dandy: Beau Brummell between History and Glamour / Matteo Giovanni Fabbris -- Straightening the Skein: Art, Biography and Gender Politics in Christopher Hampton's Carrington / Monika Pietrzak-Franger -- "The child is father of the man" and the author: Screening the Lives of Children's Authors / Anja Müller -- Nowhere Boy: A Portrait of John Lennon as a Young Man / Lucia Esposito.
Biographical films
Historical films
Motion pictures