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Whose lives are they anyway?: the biopic as contemporary film genre
Dennis Bingham
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page ix)
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Introduction: A Respectable Genre of Very Low Repute (page 3)
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BOOK ONE THE GREAT (WHITE) MAN BIOPIC AND ITS DISCONTENTS
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1 Strachey's Way, or All's Well That Ends Welles (page 31)
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2 Rembrandt (1936) (page 41)
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3 Citizen Kane and the Biopic (page 50)
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4 Lawrence of Arabia: "But does he really deserve a place in here?" (page 72)
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5 Nixon, Oliver Stone, and the Unmaking of the Self-Made Man (page 100)
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6 Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould: Ghost Picture (page 128)
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7 Ed Wood: The Biopic of Someone Undeserving (page 146)
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8 Spike Lee's Malcolm X: Appropriation or Assimilation? (page 169)
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9 Raoul Peck's Lumumba: Drama, Documentary, and Postcolonial Appropriation (page 191)
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BOOK TWO A WOMAN'S LIFE IS NEVER DONE: FEMALE BIOPICS
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10 Prologue (page 213)
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11 Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story: Toying with the Genre (page 223)
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12 I Want to Live!: Criminal Woman, Male Discourses (page 238)
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13 Barbra and Julie at the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius (page 259)
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14 Hacked: Gorillas in the Mist and Other Female Biopics of the 1980s (page 289)
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15 An Angel at My Table: Re-Framing the Female biography (page 311)
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16 Erin Brockovich: Hollywood Feminist Revisionism, after a Fashion (page 332)
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17 Twenty-First-Century Women (page 348)
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18 I'm Not There: Some Conclusions on a Book Concerning Biopics (page 377)
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Works Cited (page 405)
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Index (page 421)
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Published: c2010
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
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