UID:
edocfu_9959237008602883
Format:
1 online resource (354 pages) :
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illustrations.
ISBN:
1-4384-6081-3
Series Statement:
SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema
Content:
Biopics—films that chronicle the lives of famous and notorious figures from our national history—have long been one of Hollywood's most popular and important genres, offering viewers various understandings of American national identity. Invented Lives, Imagined Communities provides the first full-length examination of US biopics, focusing on key releases in American cinema while treating recent developments in three fields: cinema studies, particularly the history of Hollywood; national identity studies dealing with the American experience; and scholarship devoted to modernity and postmodernity. Films discussed include Houdini, Patton, The Great White Hope, Bound for Glory, Ed Wood, Basquiat, Pollock, Sylvia, Kinsey, Fur, Milk, J. Edgar, and Lincoln, and the book pays special attention to the crucial generic plot along which biopics traverse and showcase American lives, even as they modify the various notions of the national character.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Front Matter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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Performers and Showmen --
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Empty Words --
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Woody Guthrie, Warts and All --
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“Weird Andy Hardy” --
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Hot and Cold Warriors --
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Topography and Typology --
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Patton (1970) --
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J. Edgar --
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Artists and Writers --
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Nationalizing Abject American Artists --
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Adapting Plathology --
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“The Dark Lady of American Photography” --
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Emancipators and Martyrs --
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The Great White Hope (1970) --
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Kinsey --
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Toward a New LGBT Biopic --
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Spielberg’s Lincoln --
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Afterword --
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Contributors --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4384-6079-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781438460819
