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Bio-pics

2014-12-16 Performing Arts
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Release : 2014-12-16
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis Bio-pics by : Ellen Cheshire

Download or read book Bio-pics written by Ellen Cheshire. This book was released on 2014-12-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bio-pics: A Life in Pictures offers a series of case studies which throw light on this most unique of genres. Is the bio-pic a genre in its own right? Or are such films merely footnotes in other more traditional genres such as the western or costume drama, depending on the historical figure under scrutiny. Unlike other genre forms bio-pics seemingly share no familiar iconography, codes or conventions. They can be set anywhere and at any time. What links them is quite simply that the films depict the life of an 'important' person. Through a carefully selected range of thematically linked (English-language) bio-pics released since 1990 this book explores key issues surrounding their resurgence, narrative structure, production, subject representation or misrepresentation, and critical response. The films under discussion are grouped around a profession (writers, singers, politicians, sportsmen, criminals, artists) allowing for comparisons to be drawn in approaches to similar subject matter.

Bio/pics

1992 Performing Arts
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Release : 1992
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 544/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Bio/pics by : George Frederick Custen

Download or read book Bio/pics written by George Frederick Custen. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On biographical films

Biopics of Women

2020-04-22 Education
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Release : 2020-04-22
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 279/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Biopics of Women by : Karen Hollinger

Download or read book Biopics of Women written by Karen Hollinger. This book was released on 2020-04-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an accessible overview of biographical fiction films of women and is structured around four of the most popular subjects of female biopics: queens and political figures; entertainers; writers; and subjects of current affairs. While the biopic is commonly accepted as a deeply conservative cinematic form that represents glorification of the past and of the self-made individual, a number of biopics of women challenge all of these characterizations. They show the genre to be much more complicated and challenging to regressive ideas than has been proposed, and open to different formats and thematic possibilities. Providing an overview of key subgenres complemented by analyses of key texts that illustrate major aspects of each category, Biopics of Women examines the development of biographical films in each area and the images of successful women they project in order to investigate the issues involved in women’s representation in the genre as a whole. This is a lively and readable text for students and scholars in Gender and Film, Gender and Media, and Women’s Studies.

It's Only a Movie

2008-12-09 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2008-12-09
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis It's Only a Movie by : Charlotte Chandler

Download or read book It's Only a Movie written by Charlotte Chandler. This book was released on 2008-12-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT'S ONLY A MOVIE is as close to an autobiography by Alfred Hitchcock that you could ever have. Drawn from years of interviews with her subject, his friends and the actors who worked with him on such classics as THE BIRDS, PSYCHO and REAR VIEW WINDOW, Charlotte Chandler has created a rich, complex, affectionate and honest picture of the man and his milieu. This is Hitchcock in his own voice and through the eyes of those who knew him better than anyone could.

Motion Picture Biographies

2015-04-01 Art
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Release : 2015-04-01
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Motion Picture Biographies by : John Cones

Download or read book Motion Picture Biographies written by John Cones. This book was released on 2015-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood movies are famous for promoting negative stereotypes of all kinds, especially against minorities, women, Southerners, and Christians. To what extent are biographical films selected for production according to certain biases, conscious or unconscious, among the Hollywood elite? An expert on the U.S. film industry gives readers brief synopses of Hollywood biopics produced and/ or released from 1912 through 1994. This survey provides the basis for discussion and analysis. Tracking these one-sided depictions over a longer period of time, the patterns of bias - and the source of the problem - become more clear. The problem appears to be that most of the people who have green-light authority in the U.S. film industry - for either the production and/or distribution of a motion picture - share a common ethnic/religious/cultural background. Thus, the stories of their own cohort and those of all other ethnic, religious and/or cultural groups (whose members seldom achieve positions of power in Hollywood) are being filtered through the cultural sensibilities of a single group. John Cones suggests that the solution could lie in increasing diversity at the highest levels in the U.S. film industry.

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