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Author:   William H. Epstein ,  R. Barton Palmer (Clemson University)
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.463kg
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9781438460802

ISBN 10:   1438460805
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   02 January 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction: Strategic Patriotic Memories William H. Epstein PERFORMERS AND SHOWMEN Empty Words: Houdini and Houdini Murray Pomerance Woody Guthrie, Warts and All: The Biopic in the New American Cinema of the 1970s Dennis Bingham ""Weird Andy Hardy"": Ed Wood and American National Identity Constantine Verevis HOT AND COLD WARRIORS Topography and Typology: Wyatt Earp and the West Homer B. Pettey Patton (1970): Celebrating the Un-American National Hero R. Barton Palmer J. Edgar: Eastwood's Man of Mystery Douglas Mcfarland ARTISTS AND WRITERS Nationalizing Abject American Artists: Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Jean-Michel Basquiat Julie Codell Adapting Plathology: Sylvia (2003) Claire Perkins ""The Dark Lady of American Photography"": Steven Shainberg's Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006) Monika Pietrzak-Franger EMANCIPATORS AND MARTYRS The Great White Hope (1970): A Forgotten Biopic? James Burns And Abel A. Bartley Kinsey: An Inquiry into American Sexual Identity Gabriele Linke Toward a New LGBT Biopic: Politics and Reflexivity in Gus Van Sant's Milk (2008) Julia G. Erhart Spielberg's Lincoln: Memorializing Emancipation R. Barton Palmer Afterword: The Making of Americans William H. Epstein Contributors Index"

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A provocative, critically astute study, this collection examines the biopic as a reflexive, refractive modernist film genre. Admirably researched essays provide close, compelling readings of chosen films, while exploring the multilayered matrices of historical fact, biographical and autobiographical literature, popular media representations, and cultural histories-shaping not only the lives and narratives of the performers, artists, and political/historical figures represented but also the practices of the filmmakers as they worked within or on the margins of the Hollywood industry. - Cynthia Lucia, Rider University The volume's greatest strengths include its range, its variety of ideas on the significance of the biopic, and its research-definitive in several cases-into the relation between historical figures and their cinematic counterparts. - James Morrison, author of Passport to Hollywood: Hollywood Films, European Directors

...a valuable resource for all who are interested in history and film ... Highly recommended. - CHOICE A provocative, critically astute study, this collection examines the biopic as a reflexive, refractive modernist film genre. Admirably researched essays provide close, compelling readings of chosen films, while exploring the multilayered matrices of historical fact, biographical and autobiographical literature, popular media representations, and cultural histories-shaping not only the lives and narratives of the performers, artists, and political/historical figures represented but also the practices of the filmmakers as they worked within or on the margins of the Hollywood industry. - Cynthia Lucia, Rider University The volume's greatest strengths include its range, its variety of ideas on the significance of the biopic, and its research-definitive in several cases-into the relation between historical figures and their cinematic counterparts. - James Morrison, author of Passport to Hollywood: Hollywood Films, European Directors

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William H. Epstein is Professor of English at the University of Arizona. His previous books include Recognizing Biography and Contesting the Subject: Essays in the Postmodern Theory and Practice of Biographical Criticism. R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature and Director of Film Studies at Clemson University. His previous books include Shot on Location: Postwar American Cinema and the Exploration of Real Place and (with William Robert Bray) Hollywood's Tennessee: The Williams Films and Postwar America.

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