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Author:   Tom Brown (University of Reading, UK) ,  Belén Vidal (King's College, London, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780415899413

ISBN 10:   0415899419
Pages:   314
Publication Date:   07 December 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Biopic and its Critical Contexts - Belén Vidal I. Cultural Shifts 1. Facebooking the Present: the Biopic and Cultural Instantaneity - Rebecca A. Sheehan 2. The Contemporary French Biopic in National and International Contexts - Raphaëlle Moine 3. The Biopic of the New Middle Classes in Contemporary Hindi Cinema - Rachel Dwyer 4. Recycling Historical Lives: South Korean Period Biopics and the Culture Content Industry - Yun Mi Hwang II. Cycles and Performance 5. Performing Performers: Embodiment and Intertextuality in the Contemporary Biopic - Lucy Fife Donaldson 6. Consensual Pleasures: Amazing Grace, Oratory and the Middlebrow Biopic - Tom Brown 7. Morgan/Sheen: The Compressed Frame of Impersonation - Belén Vidal 8. Gender, Genius and Abjection in Artist Biopics - Julie F. Codell 9. Chanel on Screen: Female Biopics in the Age of Global Branding - Ginette Vincendeau III. Icons and Auteurs 10. Cinematic Boundaries: Aleksandr Sokurov’s The Sun as Liminal Biopic - Alastair Phillips 11. History in the Making: Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette and the New Auteurism - Pam Cook 12. I’m Not There: Transcendent Thanatography - Jesse Schlotterbeck 13. Il Divo: The Biopic, Counter-History, and Cine/Politics in the 21st Century - Marcia Landy 14. Gainsbourg: Puppetry in the Musical Biopic - Robert Burgoyne

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Tom Brown is Lecturer in the Department of Film Studies at King’s College London. He is the editor (with James Walters) of Film Moments: Criticism, History, Theory and (with James Bennett) of Film and Television after DVD, and the author of Breaking the Fourth Wall: Direct Address in the Cinema. Belén Vidal is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Film Studies at King’s College London. She is the author of Figuring the Past: Period Film and the Mannerist Aesthetic and The Heritage Film: Nation, Genre, and Representation. She is the co-editor of Cinema at the Periphery.

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