Adaptation, Intermediality and the British Celebrity Biopic

by Maddalena., Márta., Minier, Pennacchia

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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Biopic: An Introduction -- 1 Culturally British Bio(e)pics: From Elizabeth to The King's Speech -- 2 Life and Death in the Media Spotlight: The People's Princess as Royal Celebrity -- 3 Reframing the Royal Performance: Helen Mirren's 'Transformative Acting' and Celebrity Self-presentation in The Queen

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Full Title	Adaptation, Intermediality and the British Celebrity Biopic
Publication Info	[Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar], Taylor and Francis, 2016
ISBN(s)	9781409461265, 1409461262
Physical Description	1 Online-Ressource (245 Seiten)
General Note	IMD-Felder maschinell generiert
Summary, etc.	Cover Page — Title Page — Copyright Page — Contents — Notes on Contributors — Foreword — Acknowledgements — Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Biopic: An Introduction — 1 Culturally British Bio(e)pics: From Elizabeth to The King’s Speech — 2 Life and Death in the Media Spotlight: The People’s Princess as Royal Celebrity — 3 Reframing the Royal Performance: Helen Mirren’s ‘Transformative Acting’ and Celebrity Self-presentation in The Queen
Summary, etc.	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 — 5 Shakespeare’s life on Film and Television: Shakespeare in Love and A Waste of Shame — 6 Austenmania, or the Female Biopic as Literary Heritage — 7 Beyond ‘Sex and Drugs and Lyrical Ballads’: High In/fidelity in Julien Temple’s Pandaemonium — 8 ‘Screening’ the Dandy: Beau Brummell between History and Glamour — 9 Straightening the Skein: Art, Biography and Gender Politics in Christopher Hampton’s Carrington
Summary, etc.	10 “The child is father of the man …”–And the Author: Screening the Lives of Children’s Authors — 11 Nowhere Boy, A Portrait of John Lennon as a Young Man — Index