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Author:   Márta Minier ,  Maddalena Pennacchia
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781409461265

ISBN 10:   1409461262
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   20 October 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Biopic: An Introduction, Márta Minier, Maddalena Pennacchia; Chapter 1 Culturally British Bio(e)pics: From Elizabeth to The King’s Speech, Maddalena Pennacchia; Chapter 2 Life and Death in the Media Spotlight: The People’s Princess as Royal Celebrity, Alessandra Ruggiero; Chapter 3 Reframing the Royal Performance: Helen Mirren’s ‘Transformative Acting’ and Celebrity Self-presentation in The Queen, Isobel Johnstone; Chapter 4 Joining History to Celebiography and Heritage to Documentary on the Small Screen: Spotlight on the Content of the Form in the Metamediatic Royal Bio-docudrama The Queen, Márta Minier; Chapter 5 Shakespeare’s life on Film and Television: Shakespeare in Love and A Waste of Shame, Paul J.C.M. Franssen; Chapter 6 Austenmania, or the Female Biopic as Literary Heritage, Margarida Esteves Pereira; Chapter 7 Beyond ‘Sex and Drugs and Lyrical Ballads’: High In/fidelity in Julien Temple’s Pandaemonium, Liz Jones; Chapter 8 ‘Screening’ the Dandy: Beau Brummell between History and Glamour, Matteo Fabbris; Chapter 9 Straightening the Skein: Art, Biography and Gender Politics in Christopher Hampton’s Carrington, Monika Pietrzak-Franger; Chapter 10 “The child is father of the man…” – and the Author: Screening the Lives of Children’s Authors, Anja Müller; Chapter 11 Nowhere Boy, A Portrait of John Lennon as a Young Man, Lucia Esposito;

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'The triple focus on adaptation, intermediality, and celebrity studies (and its contact areas) makes for a coherent and productive combination of methodological approaches - perfectly illustrated in the interdisciplinary introduction to the volume - to look at contemporary (mostly 2000s) developments in a genre that has become a staple in British cinema and television.' Adaptation

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Marta Minier is Lecturer in Drama at the University of South Wales, UK, and Maddalena Pennacchia is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Roma Tre University, Italy.

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