UID:
almahu_9949337858402882
Format:
1 online resource (208 pages).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781501361463
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9781501361487
Content:
"Biopics and movies based on real events are joining adaptations and blockbuster franchises at the multiplex as stories with a built-in audience who know what to expect. Movies and television shows that depict real people purport to tell us the real story, everything we know and do not know about a public figure packaged into one coherent narrative. But how do they do it? The Biopic and Beyond uncovers the process that turns the distant public figures that populate news and entertainment into screen characters that we can engage with and try to understand a little better. Even though they aren't the real thing, fictionalised versions of public figures can, for better or worse, colour the way we understand the real person behind them. Biopics and docudramas are not the only places on screen that give us access to the fake person behind the real person, with media as varied as sketch comedy, fan fiction, and the celebrity cameo contributing to the ways we understand media figures. Using case studies such as Mark Zuckerberg and The Social Network , Sarah Palin and Saturday Night Live , and Louis C.K. and Louie , The Biopic and Beyond will make you think about the way you see the world through a fictionalised version of it."--
Note:
1. Introduction: Any Resemblance is Completely Intended - Defining Docucharacter -- 2. Re-Creating the Public - Locating a Fiction: Patriots Day - Repurposing and Re-Presenting the Real: Tonya and O.J. - Reflexive Reconstruction: The Disaster Artist -- 3. Creating the Private - Mark Zuckerberg as a Public Source Text - Motivating Mark: Constructing the Neoclassical Biopic Character in The Social Network - Public Words, Private Voices -- 4. The Illusion of Access - Seeing the Unseen - Stylizing Subjectivity - Feeling Facts -- 5. Beyond the Biopic: Sketch Comedy - Saturday Night Live and Celebrity Impersonation - The Multiple Lives of "Sarah Feylin" - Re-Creating Events in the Docucharacter Sketch - Game Change: Palin in Docudrama -- 6. Beyond the Biopic: Celebrities Play Themselves - Narrative Functions of Celebrity Cameos - Fictional Self as Authentic Self: Stand Up Comedians in Semi-Autobiographical Fictions - When Reality Interrupts: Louis C.K. and Louie C.K. -- 7. Beyond the Biopic: Real Person Fan Fiction - RPF as a Fan Practice - Preserving Character in Docufantasy - Writing in the Margins, Re-writing Lives -- 8. Conclusion: Defined by Docucharacter -- Bibliography -- Index
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781501361494
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.5040/9781501361463
URL:
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