E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Epstein / Palmer Invented Lives, Imagined Communities
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6081-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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The Biopic and American National Identity
E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6081-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
How Hollywood biopics both showcase and modify various notions of what it means to be an American.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Strategic Patriotic Memories
William H. Epstein
PERFORMERS AND SHOWMEN
Empty Words: Houdini and Houdini
Murray Pomerance
Woody Guthrie, Warts and All: The Biopic in the New American Cinema of the 1970s
Dennis Bingham
“Weird Andy Hardy”: Ed Wood and American National Identity
Constantine Verevis
HOT AND COLD WARRIORS
Topography and Typology: Wyatt Earp and the West
Homer B. Pettey
Patton (1970): Celebrating the Un-American National Hero
R. Barton Palmer
J. Edgar: Eastwood’s Man of Mystery
Douglas Mcfarland
ARTISTS AND WRITERS
Nationalizing Abject American Artists: Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Jean-Michel Basquiat
Julie Codell
Adapting Plathology: Sylvia (2003)
Claire Perkins
“The Dark Lady of American Photography”: Steven Shainberg’s Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
Monika Pietrzak-Franger
EMANCIPATORS AND MARTYRS
The Great White Hope (1970): A Forgotten Biopic?
James Burns And Abel A. Bartley
Kinsey: An Inquiry into American Sexual Identity
Gabriele Linke
Toward a New LGBT Biopic: Politics and Reflexivity in Gus Van Sant’s Milk (2008)
Julia G. Erhart
Spielberg’s Lincoln: Memorializing Emancipation
R. Barton Palmer
Afterword: The Making of Americans
William H. Epstein
Contributors
Index