Whose lives are they anyway?
Subtitle: the biopic as contemporary film genre
By: Dennis Bingham.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780813546575; 9780813546582
Subjects: Biographical films -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a respectable genre of very low repute; title: Book one: the great man biopic and its discontents. Strachey's way, or all's well that ends Welles: certain tendencies of the film biography; title: Rembrandt (1936); title: Flashback/flashforward: Citizen Kane and the biopic; title: "But does he really deserve a place ... in here?": Lawrence of Arabia and the subject-turned-object; title: Nixon, Oliver Stone, and the unmaking of the self-made man p.s.: W.; title: Ghost picture: 32 short films about Glenn Gould; title: Lust for tripe: the biopic of someone who doesn't deserve one; title: Appropriation or assimilation, or the postclassical biopic and African American subjects: Spike Lee's Malcolm X; title: Raoul Peck's Lumumba: drama, documentary, and the post-colonial appropriation; title: Book two: a woman's life is never done. Prologue; title: Toying with the genre, or the bare bones of the female biopic: superstar: The Karen  Carpenter story; title: Criminal woman, male discourses, and female biopics: I want to live!; title: Barbra and Julie at the dawning of the age of Aquarius: biopics and the fall of the female star; title: Funny girl; title: Star!; title: Suffocation: female biopics of the 1980s; title: Gorillas in the mist; title: Re-framing the female biography: An angel at my table; title: "She's like a superhero": Erin Brockovich and Hollywood feminist revisionism, after a fashion; title: Notorious, or present and future lives of the female biopics; title: The notorious Bettie Page: feminism, free will, and God's will; title: Marie Antoinette: the female biopic gets the guillotine; title: I'm not there: some conclusions on a book concerning biopics.