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HBO’s Black Women Artist Biopics: The Josephine Baker Story and Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
La Revue LISA, 2016 This paper analyses cable television HBO’s 1990s biopics based on the life stories of the African American dancer and singer Josephine Baker (The Josephine Baker Story, Brian Gibson, 1991) and the actress Dorothy Dandridge (Introducing Dorothy Dandridge,
Hélène Charlery
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Biopics as Postmodern Mythmaking
Akademisk Kvarter, 2011 Biopics as Postmodern Mythmaking by Valentina Cucca takes as its starting point the fact that the biographical genre has experienced a renewed prominence.
Valentina Cucca
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Live to Tell: Remediating Historical Performance in the Popular Music Biopic [PDF]
IASPM Journal, 2017 This article explores some of the procedures through which popular music biopics remediate, reactivate, authenticate and in some cases newly create the aura of key performances in the history of popular music.
Maurizio Corbella
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European Journal of Life Writing, 2021 In 2015, the cable television network Lifetime broadcast the biopic Whitney, depicting the troubled life of the late superstar singer Whitney Houston. Whitney is the first film by director Angela Bassett, who, as actress, famously portraited Tina Turner ...
Jaap Kooijman
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‘Mattering’ Women’s Lives on Screen: An Introduction
European Journal of Life Writing, 2021 The aim of this introduction is to provide a context for the articles that follow in this cluster on Women’s Lives on Screen. Starting with some reflections on how biopics can matter to audiences, I propose the use of ‘mattering’ as a concept for the ...
Eugenie Theuer
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Practices of Verisimilitude in Pop Music Biopics: A Conversation with Todd Eckert and James Anthony Pearson on Control, and Nick Moran on Telstar [PDF]
IASPM Journal, 2017 The arresting look and feel of two recent British music biopics, Control (directed by Anton Corbijn, 2007) and Telstar: The Joe Meek Story (directed by Nick Moran, 2008), prompts a reconsideration of questions of realism and authenticity – rationales ...
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Buletin Al-Turas, 2023 Purpose This study problematizes the interconnectedness between religion and media once again within the context of Indonesian biopics. This paper looks at the pattern of transformation of two Islamic elite-authoritative figures into Islamic-popular ...
Mochamad Andhy Nurmansyah
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Entre la historia y la ficción: la transición española a través de los 'biopics' históricos
Área Abierta, 2023 La relación entre historia y ficción siempre ha sido compleja, aunque ha mejorado en las últimas décadas ante la potencialidad del medio audiovisual para difundir el conocimiento de nuestro pasado.
Adrián Magaldi Fernández
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Los biopics de científicos: un acercamiento desde el cine a la historia de la ciencia
Documentación de las Ciencias de la Información, 2023 El cine y la televisión son aliados indiscutibles para la divulgación la ciencia, y los biopics, al recrear las vidas de científicos ejemplares y mostrar el proceso de las investigaciones, permiten aprender sobre el funcionamiento de la Ciencia.
José Manuel Estrada Lorenzo
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New Women’s Biopics: Performance and the Queering of Herstor/ies
European Journal of Life Writing, 2021 This article revisits the debates about the postfeminist biopic in the 21st century through the films Wild Nights with Emily (Olnek, 2018), Florence Foster Jenkins (Frears, 2016), The Favourite (Lanthimos, 2018) and particularly Colette (Westmoreland ...
Belén Vidal
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